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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 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 April 15, 2010	Google Sees Spam Surging on Botnet Activity Google's Postini e-mail filtering and security service saw 30 percent spike in spam messages in March, highlighting the proliferation of botnets across the Internet.
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?
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 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 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 May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.
InternetNews March 3, 2010	Microsoft Calls for Infected PC Quarantine At RSA, Microsoft's Scott Charney compares infected PCs' spamming to secondhand smoke - and suggests they also be banned from the Net.
InternetNews March 3, 2010	Mariposa Hackers Busted in Giant Botnet Scam Three Spanish hackers believed to be responsible for using a botnet to steal log-in credentials and customer banking data were arrested following a multinational investigation.
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.
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.
InternetNews July 29, 2010	Authorities Nab Mariposa Botnet Kit Purveyor A 23-year-old man was arrested last week in Slovenia for allegedly creating and selling the Butterfly botnet kit used to spread the loathsome Mariposa botnet.
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings.
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 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 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.
InternetNews February 2, 2011	Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January.
InternetNews September 13, 2010	Enterprises Recover From 'Here You Have' Virus One of the most potent email-based viruses in years had enterprise IT managers scrambling over the weekend to get their email servers back in top form.
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 July 20, 2009	Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From U.S. Where does spam come from? If you guessed the U.S., you'd be right.
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.
InternetNews November 12, 2008 Christopher Saunders	Media Spotlight Scatters a Botnet Host ISPs spring into action after a mainstream publication fingers a U.S. Web hosting company for its role in the global spam and malware epidemic.
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 Robert Lemos	Gangland Web Attacks How not to get whacked by the botnet mafia.
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 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.
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam's Carbon Footprint Worse Than 2.3M Cars In a new report, McAfee describes the price the planet itself pays for spam and makes a strong case for better spam filters.
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead.
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
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.
InternetNews July 29, 2009	Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.
InternetNews July 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Trend Micro Readies Security SaaS Antivirus developer Trend Micro said it's ready to take on some big names with its new SecureCloud Software-as-a-Service security platform for businesses.
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist.
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.
InternetNews November 17, 2010	Stuxnet, Mobile Threats Top 3Q Malware Report Security software vendor McAfee's 3Q Threats Report takes note of some older malware scams from the past and some new and discouraging new ones.
InternetNews September 30, 2010	'Here You Have' Worm Takes Toll In September The new version of an old malware trick was the single largest security threat to enterprise IT departments last month.
InternetNews April 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker's 'Kido' Spinoff Gets Busy Spamming Report says one bot can send up to 80,000 e-mails a day.
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks?
Scientific American June 2009 Michael Moyer	What Conficker Reveals About Internet Crime The worm exposes the sophisticated international criminal networks behind modern computer viruses
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.
PC Magazine January 1, 2011 Larry Seltzer	Computer Security: How It Looks for 2011 Here are what security vendors predict for 2011.
PC Magazine October 16, 2007 Larry Seltzer	Microsoft on the .Info Block Note to software giant: applying blanket rules isn't good security.
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 April 2, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Volunteers For Spam Security vendor McAfee hires 50 volunteers to be spammed as much as they can manage, and then have them blog about it.
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 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.
InternetNews March 10, 2010	Mariposa Bot Shipped With Vodafone Smartphone Panda Security discovered Confiker, Mariposa and Lineage password stealing malware samples installed on a recently purchased Vodafone HTC Magic smartphone.
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.
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