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InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.  |
InternetNews August 14, 2009 |
Twitter Used as Botnet Control As bot herders learn to exploit legitimate sites, researchers warn that IT managers will need to monitor social media closely.  |
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number.  |
Wired November 2006 Scott Berinato |
Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost.  |
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Downadup: The Web's Next Big Threat? Experts blame a lack of patching and an advanced design for the rise of a worm that could outpace Storm.  |
InternetNews August 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Storm Worm Gathers Strength on The Internet The Storm worm virus is still around, still causing trouble and stronger than ever six months later.  |
InternetNews September 29, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
IM Attacks on The Rise New IM attacks are more stealthful than before so you might not even know you've been hit.  |
InternetNews October 3, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Symantec Adds Bot Hunting to Managed Services By using a traceback method, Symantec can look for hidden botnets within a corporate network.  |
Wired August 23, 2007 John Robb |
When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack.  |
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Working to Regain Lost Ground Businesses can expect more malware this year as the spammers recover from the McColo take-down.  |
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch?  |
PC Magazine August 20, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel |
There's a Bot in Your PC Aiding the rise of blended threats around the world, botnets are digging in and using your network as a base of operations.  |
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets.  |
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well.  |
PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin |
The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers.  |
Bank Systems & Technology February 18, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Q&A: Alex Cox, Discoverer of Today's Massive Botnet Attack Data security expert Alex Cox tells how banks can protect themselves against the Kneber botnet he discovered, which has infected 75,000 computers at 2,500 organizations around the world, and which is still active.  |
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 Joel Schectman |
Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it.  |
Bank Technology News December 2010 Michael Sisk |
Endgame Systems Finds Botnets in the Cloud Security software provider Endgame Systems raised $29 million in the fall and simultaneously launched ipTrust, a product meant to detect and manage the harm caused by malware and botnets in cloud computing environments  |
National Defense October 2009 Jean & Erwin |
Research Detects Spamming Attacks Researchers at Microsoft have developed a system to detect botnet attacks on Web email providers  |
Bank Systems & Technology February 18, 2010 Penny Crosman |
Botnet Affecting 2,500 Organizations Discovered "Kneber Botnet" gathers login credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and email systems from infested computers.  |
InternetNews May 5, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Researchers Seize Botnet, Peer Into Net's Dark Side For 10 days, a UCSB team monitored a botnet known for stealing credit card data and bank account credentials.  |
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.  |
Bank Technology News May 2006 Holly Sraeel |
If Financial Crime is Rising, Then Security is Job #1 Furthered along by a loosely knit network of criminals, cybercrime is being waged by hackers and botmasters for profit in ways that are often not easily tracked by financial institutions, law enforcement authorities and governments.  |
InternetNews March 4, 2010 |
Spanish Authorities Break Up Massive Botnet "Mariposa" gained access to information in more than 13 million PCs worldwide, making it one of the most destructive botnets in history, though authorities say that the operators weren't sophisticated hackers.  |
InternetNews July 14, 2009 |
Inside Korea's Cyber Attack What really happened in South Korea? Attackers used the country's high-speed network against itself.  |
InternetNews October 24, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
The 'Storm' That Keeps Blowing The Storm worm seems to unleash one new e-mail flood or denial of service attack every week. Why won't it go away?  |
InternetNews January 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Move Over Storm, There's a New Botnet in Town Nugache, a once-minor botnet, gets an extreme makeover and may be rivaling Storm in terms of size and scale of nuisance.  |
Scientific American June 2009 Michael Moyer |
What Conficker Reveals About Internet Crime The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks behind modern computer viruses  |
BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Ben Elgin |
Click Fraud's Next Frontier If you place an advertisement on Google or Yahoo!, and you're paying the search giants each time somebody clicks, it would be nice to know that the clicker is a human being who might actually purchase your product. Unfortunately, there are no such assurances.  |
CIO October 30, 2012 Lucian Constantin |
Lack of Abuse Detection Allows Cloud Computing Instances to Be Used Like Botnets, Study Says Some cloud providers don't detect attacks launched from their networks, researchers say  |
InternetNews February 18, 2010 |
Kneber Botnet Pierces 2,500 Organizations So-called 'Kneber' botnet collects log-in credentials to online financial systems, social networking sites and e-mail systems to break into accounts and steal corporate and government data at an astonishing pace.  |
InternetNews March 18, 2011 |
Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week.  |
InternetNews August 29, 2006 Roy Mark |
Botnet Perp Hit With Three-Year Prison Term Adware scam results in damaged computers at Seattle hospital and U.S. military installations.  |
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Botnets Bouncing Back Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning - and may be stronger than ever.  |
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 Robert Lemos |
Gangland Web Attacks How not to get whacked by the botnet mafia.  |
InternetNews October 17, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Adobe Sites Hit by Malware Just weeks after a BusinessWeek Web site was hit by an SQL injection attack, comes news that Adobe has had to deal with two of its Web sites compromised the same way.  |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too.  |
InternetNews June 22, 2010 |
Botnet Still King of Malware Underworld Latest report from Gartner finds that while more sophisticated malware and phishing scams will proliferate, botnets will still be the top challenge for security experts for the foreseeable future.  |
BusinessWeek June 16, 2011 Christopher S. Stewart |
FireEye: Botnet Busters When Microsoft and Pfizer got fed up with the nastiest junk e-mail blaster on the Web, they called Silicon Valley's cybercrime vigilante.  |
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston |
What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight.  |
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Microsoft Rounds Up Posse to Nab Conficker In a worldwide effort to bring down what experts warn may be the worst malware now facing the Internet, big names from the computer industry, academia and law enforcement are teaming up to go after the Conficker worm.  |
InternetNews November 23, 2009 |
Second iPhone Worm Targets Personal Data The second incident of espionage on jailbroken iPhones is much nastier than its prank-like predecessor.  |
InternetNews April 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Malware Problem Shows no Sign of Slowing It's easier than ever to write a phishing virus that looks like a Facebook app thanks to virus writer's toolkits, Symantec finds.  |
InternetNews October 15, 2010 |
Microsoft Security Report: Botnets Enemy No. 1 In the latest installment of its Security Intelligence Report, Microsoft takes a look at the major online criminal blights plaguing enterprises and consumers, ranking botnets the worst of the worst.  |
InternetNews September 9, 2009 |
IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.  |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
Microsoft Scores Win Against Waledac Botnet Microsoft obtains temporary injunction ordering shut down of 277 Internet domains suspected of orchestrating massive "Waledac" botnet, one of the nation's 10 largest.  |
InternetNews October 7, 2009 |
Hackers Target Xbox Live As next-generation gaming consoles go online, some of the same security problems that have faced consumer and enterprise IT networks are surfacing.  |
PC World August 2006 Andrew Brandt |
The 10 Biggest Security Risks You Don't Know About Hackers, scammers, and identity thieves are constantly coming up with new ways to attack your PC and your privacy. Here are the newest perils and how to foil them.  |
PC Magazine August 1, 2007 Eileen Travers |
The Botnet Mafia The online underworld is buying and selling control of your computer, but law enforcement is fighting back.  |
Wired August 21, 2007 Joshua Davis |
Hackers Take Down the Most Wired Country in Europe How Estonia dealt with a botnet strike that targeted almost every digital front all at once.  |