For those of you who enjoy security news, this week offered plenty of topics to digest. Microsoft attempted to shut down a botnet network by obtaining a court order that called for the closing of nefarious .com domains. Attackers are exploiting flaws in multimedia software, but overall instances of buggy software decreased last year, according to an IBM study. And not to frighten you, but the U.S. would lose a cyberwar, according to a security expert. Finally, we need to mention Google and its challenging week. In one day, three of its executives were convicted of privacy violations and European regulators announced an antitrust review of its search rankings. And the spat between the company and China still isn't resolved, resulting in Google supposedly canceling a Beijing developers event.

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