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A remarkable kitten who survived being born under the bonnet of a moving car on a 60 mile journey has been nursed back to health by two dogs. Tabby Kit is the sole survivor of five kittens found inside the engine of a van after their mother crawled under the bonnet to give birth. Unbeknown to the driver, the terrified pet had her kittens en route from Essex to London, and ran away after the 60-mile journey, leaving the kittens fighting to survive. Kit, who is now nine-weeks-old, was only discovered when his brother fell out onto the pavement in...

A DENIAL OF SERVICE attack which was blamed on the glorious workers of North Korea might have been the work of Blighty hackers. The attack crippled dozens of US and South Korean web sites last week and Hanoi-based security outfit Bkis has disclosed analysis showing that it used 166,908 botted PCs from 74 countries. According to USA Today Bkis Security had a look under the bonnet of the attack code and found that it was being controlled through eight control servers, tied into a master server located in the UK and running the Windows Server 2003. Bkis research director Nguyen...