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• Man Challenges 250,000 Strong Botnet and Succeeds

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 137
  nandemoari writes "When security officials decide to "go after" computer malware, most conduct their actions from a defensive standpoint. For most of us, finding a way to rid a computer of the malware suffices — but for one computer researcher, however, the change from a defensive to an offensive mentality is what ...
  9 hours ago

• Taking Down The Botnets

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 550
  It’s not often that you find a truly interesting story of which you have no hands on knowledge if you work in the IT industry for any time, but today, in a story introduced today , instead of tomorrow, there is such a thing on PC World . Because of the unknown landscape of the story, though the story is short and ...
  1 day ago

• Basic Laptop Security Prevents Identity Theft

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 476
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com In 2003, an estimated 1.5 million laptops were stolen worldwide. Today, that number has climbed to 2.6 million. That’s a 70% increase in just a few years. That’s one stolen laptop every 12 seconds. Laptop computers have ...
  6 days ago

• Botnet Baddies Setting Up Own ISPs For Unfettered Spamming [Spam]

  
  Gizmodo — Authority: 889
  Well, this is equal parts frightening and annoying: malware writers and their lot have been buying up data centers and getting approved for large blocks of IP space. Whats that mean? That they can...
  6 days ago

• Koobface friendly Riccom AS29550 taken Off-Line

  
  certifiedbug.com — Authority: 426
  hpHosts 15 December 2009 I’m happy to announce, I woke up to a rather surprising e-mail today, from a Josh Kirkwood over at EuroConnex/BlueConnex. He informed me, because of this , they’ve booted Riccom, leaving them stranded. http://hphosts.blogspot.com/2009/12/euroconnexblueconnex-boots-riccom-ltd.html ...
  6 days ago

• Top 10 Identity Theft Predictions For 2010

  
  CIO - Blogs and Discussion - — Authority: 144
  I’ve joined forces with the Identity Theft Resource Center to expand the pool of knowledge about identity theft issues. read more
  6 days ago

• Botnet runners start their own ISPs

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 867
  Botnet and malware creeps are setting up their own ISPs, with their own IP blocks, so that spamfighters dont have anyone to complain to when they run them to ground: "Its gotten completely out of hand. The bad guys are going to some local registries in Europe and getting massive amounts of IP space and then they ...
  1 week ago

• Top 10 Identity Theft Predictions For 2010

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 476
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com I’ve joined forces with the Identity Theft Resource Center to expand the pool of knowledge about identity theft issues. As nationally recognized experts in this crime, we have come up with ten predictions for what the ...
  1 week ago

• Malware and Botnet Operators Going ISP

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 137
  Trailrunner7 writes to mention that malware and botnet operators appear to be escalating to the next level by setting up their own virtual data centers. This elevates the criminals to the ISP level, making it much harder to stop them. "The criminals will buy servers and place them in a large data center and then ...
  1 week ago

• Decline in Web, increase in P2P attacks predicted for 2010

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 738
  Cybercriminals have already begun shifting their focus from websites to file-sharing networks when it comes to dispensing malware, and will continue with this trend throughout 2010. Security researchers at Kaspersky Labs predict that malicious applications, such as fake antivirus programs, will be on the decline next ...
  1 week ago

• iPhone worm code suggests mobile botnets may be future risk

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 738
  So far, what little malware has been released for the iPhone has only affected the small percentage of folks who jailbreak and leave an SSH daemon running with the default root passwords. While some of these programs have been nothing but harmless pranks, a malicious version that attempted to create an iPhone botnet ...
  1 week ago

• MP3 Spam Returns

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 123
  Surprised researchers have discovered that MP3 spam has returned. It was last seen in 2007 and like PDF spam, was thought to have been discarded by spammers in favor of simple link spam. However, late last week security researchers discovered a brand new spam campaign using MP3 attachments. The MP3 was of a ...
  1 week ago

• Facebook Stung By Social Media ID Theft

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 476
  By Robert Siciliano, ID Theft Expert and Security Consultant to Intelius.com Imagine trying to log into your online accounts one after the other and being locked out. At first you think the site you are visiting screwed up but then it keeps happening over and over again no matter where you go. ...
  1 week ago

• Amazon Response to Botnet Incident: Balancing Privacy with Security in Cloud Computing

  
  Lori MacVittie — Authority: 465
  A n e-mail exchange with Kay Kinton, a spokesperson for Amazon , on the subject of Amazon and its recent run-in with the Zeus botnet controller , raised two very interesting and valid points. First, there is a fine balance that must be maintained by providers – cloud or traditional hosting – regarding the ...
  1 week ago

• Conficker Again in the News, Part 2

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 540
  Yesterday, my colleague Dave Marcus quoted for you the new graphs and stats posted by Shadowserver. Indeed, since November 2008, W32/Conficker (alias Downup, Downadup, Kido) has frequently made headlines. This computer worm has five main variants, which have appeared during the last year. Wikipedia lists the ...
  1 week ago

• Anchor Intelligence to score traffic for Affinity

  
  BizReport — Authority: 545
  As advertising networks look ahead to 2010 many are looking at bettering the traffic to publisher and branded websites. The key to bettering traffic, of course, is knowing where the good traffic is - and where the bad takes off from the good. To help, online advertising network Affinity has partnered with Anchor ...
  1 week ago

• Conficker Again in the News

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 540
  Our good friends at Shadowserver have recently added some excellent graphs and stats that highlight the continued infections and propagation by the Conficker worm. Conficker, although it actually does very little, continues to be a major annoyance worldwide, so let’s use these excellent charts and graphs as a ...
  1 week ago

• Click Forensics Enhances Yahoo! TQ Score Prediction

  
  Ad Operations Online — Authority: 487
  New Capabilities Help Ad Networks Adjust to Traffic Scoring Changes; Predict Sources Likely to Receive Low YTQ ScoresSearch Engine Strategies Chicago 2009CHICAGO – Ad networks and publishers looking to navigate the recent changes made to the Yahoo! Total Quality (TQ) scoring system now have an enhanced tool to help. ...
  1 week ago

• DKOM Opens Door to Malware Rootkits

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 540
  Much malware comes with a kernel rootkit component. Subverting the Windows kernel is indeed the best way to conceal malicious activities on infected systems. To achieve this, many types of malware load malicious device drivers that enjoy full access to all kernel objects. However, this technique is somewhat noisy, and ...
  1 week ago

• Project Honey Pot Receives Its Billionth Spam Message

  
  DarrenBarefoot.com — Authority: 419
  Project Honey Pot is a side project by Unspam Technologies , and “gathers statistics on Internet robots and the spammers who sometimes use them to steal email addresses”. As I understand it, they work with website publishers to serve up fake, unique email addresses on web pages. Spammers’ bots discover these ...
  1 week ago

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