AFP - Email communication in the Marshall Islands was paralysed Tuesday after hackers launched a "zombie" computer attack on the western Pacific nation's only Internet service provider, officials said.

AFP - In a new spat over cyber espionage, two US congressmen said their computer networks were compromised by Chinese hackers as they called for stepped-up efforts to boost security.

AP - China denied accusations by two U.S. lawmakers that it hacked into congressional computers, saying Thursday that as a developing country it wasn't capable of sophisticated cybercrime.

Reuters - European Union telecoms ministers agreed on Thursday to extend the life of the bloc's Internet security watchdog by three years as threats to the Web increase.

AFP - In a new spat over cyber espionage, two US congressmen said their computer networks were compromised in 2006 by Chinese hackers as they called for stepped-up efforts to boost security.