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EU to strengthen its cybersecurity watchdog A push by European authorities to strengthen the European Union's cyber security watchdog has been given a green light by parliamentarians. Symantec expects Anonymous to publish more stolen source code Symantec today confirmed that the pcAnywhere source code published on the Web Monday by hackers who tried to extort $50,000 from the company was legitimate. Denial-of-service attacks are on the rise, anti-DDoS vendors report Both the number and volume of distributed denial-of-service attacks are increasing, according to new reports from DDoS mitigation companies Prolexic and Arbor Networks. Anonymous claims to have released source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site. Kelihos botnet still dead, say Microsoft, Kaspersky Contrary to reports, the Kelihos botnet has not crawled out of the grave, Microsoft said last week. But the company acknowledged that a new botnet is being assembled using a variant of the original malware.