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Hackers have attacked the Texas National Guard's Web site and are using it to serve up offers of fake security software and plant rootkits on unpatched PCs, a security researcher said today.

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The webmaster of an Athens, Ga., proxy service is working with the FBI to try to trace who may have used his service to illegally access the Yahoo e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Security experts today put forward several theories about how Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's Yahoo! e-mail account might have been hacked, with some of them skeptical of claims that the access was gained by a simple password reset.