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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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InternetNews May 25, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Standards Group OKs E-Mail Validation Spec The Internet Engineering Task Force has adopted a vendor-developed specification designed to detect e-mail with bogus header information. The technology could help reduce spam and phishing attacks that clog Internet traffic.
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