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• Looking back at McColo

  
  certifiedbug.com — Authority: 118
  Brian Krebs-Security Fix A year later: A look back at McColo A year ago today, the Internet community witnessed a remarkable event: The unplugging of McColo, a Web hosting facility in Northern California that for a long time controlled a majority of the spam-sending operations on the planet. McColo’s two main ...
  12 hours ago

• What Could Possibly Be Worse Than A Virus?

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Anti-virus protection, critical security patches and a secure wireless connection have always been essential processes on my networks. My main concern has always been to protect my bank account by keeping the bad guy out. In my presentations, I’ve always ...
  17 hours ago

• The Mega-D Botnet Bites the Dust – Sort Of!

  
  Bill Mullins' Weblog - Tech Thoughts — Authority: 137
  BOTNET. The name sounds as if it belongs in a Sci Fi flick, in which it’s used to describe a robotic zombie army up to no good; bent on committing general mayhem.Take the Sci Fi movie out of the equation and you’ve got the right idea. A botnet is a zombie army; but an [...]
  20 hours ago

• Brain-food: white hats, anti-hackers and post-modern political loyalty

  
  Futurismic — Authority: 587
  By way of an experiment, I thought I’d round up a handful of links which made for interesting reading, but about which I felt no particular urge to editorialise (or waffle tangentially, if there’s any measurable difference between the two in my case) . If you like the format, let me know in the comments and ...
  2 days ago

• Researchers Knock Mega-D Botnet Offline

  
  Anti spam and general email security in a business environment — Authority: 492
  Researchers have successfully knocked a major botnet offline. The Mega-D botnet was shut down by a team at FireEye. The researchers attacked the botnet by registering some domains meant for the botnet’s command and control servers and shutting down others. As a result it stopped sending spam immediately. The attack ...
  2 days ago

• Congressional Leak Spotlights P2P User Act

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert Congress is still considering the Informed P2P User Act, a law that would supposedly make it safer to use peer-to-peer file sharing software, an effort that is similar to banning mosquitoes from sucking blood. It just isn’t happening. The only foolproof way ...
  2 days ago

• The McColo Effect: One Year Later

  
  McAfee Avert Labs — Authority: 509
  One year ago today email administrators were astonished to notice the amount of spam hitting their mail servers had plunged precipitously. Email volumes dropped off as much as 60 percent to 70 percent, and the reason wasn’t immediately obvious to anyone except for the folks who knew that McColo, a major ...
  2 days ago

• Researchers’ well-aimed stone takes down Goliath botnet (Ars Technica)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 158
  Security researchers have taken down a major spam offender, though the dip in spam levels may be only temporary. Members of the FireEye security team coordinated an attack on the Mega-D botnet (also known as Ozdok) last week by preemptively registering domains meant for the botnet’s command and control channels ...
  2 days ago

• Mega-D spam botnet targeted by security firm (TechWorld)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 158
  FireEye contacted ISPs and registrars to help shut down botnet A computer security company known for battling botnets moved last week to try to shut down a persistent spam player. See more here: Mega-D spam botnet targeted by security firm (TechWorld)
  3 days ago

• Bookmarks for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009

  
  TechLifeWeb — Authority: 112
  Sites that I found interesting for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009: Computer Security Company Takes Out Enormous Botnet – Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam. The so called “Mega-D” or “Ozdok” spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid ...
  3 days ago

• Evaluating Corporate Social Media Strategies

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  Daniel Wallace , Information Security Consultant at Grow Forward How vendors, integrators and consultants can position themselves to support CISO’s with corporate social media adoption… In the past I have written articles and advised CISO’s on how social media technology can be used as a vehicle ...
  3 days ago

• Computer Security Company Takes Out Enormous Botnet

  
  ModCool — Authority: 455
  Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam . The so called “Mega-D” or “Ozdok” spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid security researchers. After studying the beast, FireEye launched an attack by notifying ISPs, having command and control (CnC) domains removed, ...
  3 days ago

• Researchers Take Down a Spam Botnet

  
  IT Professionals Database (ITPD) - The European IT Professionals Database Networking Platform — Authority: 141
  The Register is reporting on the takedown of a botnet once responsible for 1/3 of the worlds spam. The deed was done by researchers from the security firm FireEye, who detailed the action a series of blog posts. PC Worlds coverage estimates that lately the botnet has accounted for 4% of spam. From the Register: "After ...
  3 days ago

• Bot herders turn to the cloud for command-and-control

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 754
  On Monday, the security blog at Arbor Networks reported finding a bit of malware that checked in with a remote account to download some URLs. On its own, this is hardly a newsworthy event; botnets have used all sorts of communications protocols to receive updated code and information. What makes this discovery ...
  3 days ago

• Facebook Users Be Careful Clicking Links On Your Wall

  
  TechJaws - Fraud Alert, SEO Tools, How to Stuff — Authority: 423
  Once again the devious Koobface botnet has created a new component that automates the following routines on Facebook: Registering a Facebook account Confirming Email address to activate the registered Facebook account Joining random Facebook groups Adding Facebook friends Posting message to Facebook ...
  3 days ago

• Weekend Roundup #60

  
  JaypeeOnline — Authority: 572
  Wassup guys? How’s everyone doing? Hope you’re all doing fine. My apologies for the very late roundup. I was kinda busy last weekend and was too tired to finish the draft and publish this edition of the Weekend Roundup. Played a couple of basketball games last Saturday night and went home past 11 PM. I was dead ...
  3 days ago

• Zombies & Child Pornography: Protect Your Computer, Protect Your Reputation

  
  Commtouch Caf — Authority: 112
  Unbeknownst to computer owners, malware infects millions of computers around the world. Many times, these malicious software programs create “zombies,” or “bots” where the computer is taken over by an outside party and used to send spam or perform other notorious processes. An army of zombies makes up a ...
  3 days ago

• Facebook, MySpace users hit by cyber attacks

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 119
  Image by sitmonkeysupreme via FlickrNZ HERALD reported that Facebook users - already being targeted in a malware campaign - are now under threat from a phishing scam. Security specialists Symantec... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• Ten Common Identity Theft Myths Dispelled

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 473
  By Robert Siciliano, Identity Theft Expert The National Foundation for Credit Counselors , which sponsors Protect Your Identity Week, has compiled a number of identity theft myths. To support their efforts, the Santa Fe Group Vendor Council Awareness and Education Subcommittee has helped to clarify some ...
  4 days ago

• Cyber Jargon YOU Need To Know

  
  The New New Internet — Authority: 431
  As the use of the internet and technology grows, so do its terms and definitions. Here is a rundown of today’s most frequently used cyber terms. We left something out? Please feel free to leave a comment below to further enhance our ‘cyber jargon’ glossary. Authentication: Confirms that a computer program ...
  4 days ago

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