Passion Redeemed! BUT, it would be glorious to win the grand prize: the first book in the series, A Passion Most Pure, the Boston baked beans, and the Starbucks gift card along with the first book I mentioned. YES! Please enter me for a point toward the prizes. Thanks SO MUCH! In case you need my email address: cepjwms at yahoo dot com

I've been hearing about these books lately and they sound really good. So please count me in because I would love to win them. I would also love to have those Boston Baked Beans! One of my childhood memories is going to the local feedstore and getting a handfull out of those quarter machines. They were my favorite.before finally hitting their target, always making attribution troublesome.

But when ZDNet contacted the security firm, it denied ever making a claim about a Russian connection. "This report about an ESET claim was an unfortunate mistake and misrepresentation by one Dutch news outlet and was corrected by them," spokesman Branislav Ondrasik said.

The bank ABN Amro became the first victim on Saturday, while Rabobank and ING Bank were hit on Monday, along with the Dutch Taxation Authority. All four were hit again on Tuesday, but this time their defenses reportedly fared better.

ABN Amro told ZDNet on Wednesday morning that the attack was "not ongoing at the moment". The bank stressed in an earlier statement that the DDoS did not threaten the security of its services -- it just knocked them