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Original Technorati articles tagged “botnets”

• in IT
  How Network Performance and Security Monitoring are Useful in Today's Data Center
  Evaluating how to securely monitor today's enterprise data systems
  by smdcp / on Apr 26, 2011
• in IT
  Master-Botter Pleads Guilty
  22,000-PC botnet builder admits guilt. Partner going to trial.
  by boneinthefan / on Apr 29, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “botnets”

 

• Just Like Old Times: Spam, Malware Levels Spike in April

  
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  Those of you who follow this type of thing know that email spam levels have declined in the recent past due to a number of factors: First, several take downs of high volume botnets have bitten a large chunk out the automation of email spam. Then there’s the simple fact that we’ve been reporting for a while ...
  3 days ago

• Polish sources CERT found fake P2P-traffic

  
  LetsByteCode — Authority: 117
  A large number of sources of P2P-wheeled traffic are located in Russia, Canada, China, Australia and the USA. The experts of the Polish teams to respond quickly to cyber threats (Computer Emergency Response Team, Cert) found in the source of malicious network P2P-traffic, which appears to users as the most downloaded ...
  3 days ago

• Measuring Botnet Populations

  
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  The following is excerpted from a talk I gave at the 2012 APCERT meeting in Bali, Indonesia in March, 2012. The topic was on botnet population measurements, something that we’ve been doing for many years and has grown in importance. What do we mean when we talk about measuring botnet populations? We are trying to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Flashback Botnet Shrinking by 100,000 Macs Per Week

  
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  Last month, Mac users experienced one of the first widespread trojans since the platform regained popularity, the Flashback trojan. Apple was quick to release a security tool to remove the trojan, and now, Dr. Web, the security firm that initially discovered the trojan, notes that while computers are still infected ...
  3 weeks ago

• Microsoft, financial services groups pursued Zeus network as part of aggressive legal strategy

  
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  Microsoft and the banking industry Monday provided a detailed, behind-the-scenes account of an operation they said disrupted a major cybercrime operation that used malicious software to allegedly steal $100 million from consumers over the last five years. A senior attorney from Microsofts digital crimes ...
  3 weeks ago

• Flashback bots search Twitter for controllers, hit Snow Leopard hardest

  
  Ars Technica — Authority: 823
  Malware investigators for the Russian antivirus company Dr. Web report  that the latest version of Flashback, the backdoor malware targeting Macs through a Java exploit, is using Twitter as a backup command and control network. Dr. Web was the first to report on the rapidly growing Flashback botnet—the largest ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trojan.Spambot.11349 steals accounts from mail clients

  
  LetsByteCode — Authority: 117
  The company “Doctor Web”, a Russian developer of IT security, according to the propagation of malware Trojan.Spambot.11349, which has a very interesting algorithm behavior. The danger of this Trojan to users is that it is able to steal the accounts from e-mail clients (eg, Microsoft Outlook and The Bat!), and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Trend Micro: Using HTML5 can lead to creation of botnets in browsers

  
  LetsByteCode — Authority: 117
  New HTML5 features can make programs like Chrome and Firefox, a modern tool for cyber attacks. Senior Researcher, Trend Micro, Robert McArdle (Robert McArdle) talked about how HTML5 markup language will facilitate the creation of browser-based botnets, and other related cyber attacks. Such a statement McArdle made ...
  3 weeks ago

• India Overtakes US As The Top Source Of Spam

  
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  Spamming is a popular internet activity that is abhorred by most of us but which, nonetheless, continues to be many people’s job. Junk email, in specific, is being used to spread spam and this mode of spamming is still very popular. Now, according to research by IT security company Sophos, India has overtaken US in ...
  4 weeks ago

• DDoS Attacks on SSL: Something Old, Something New

  
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  SSL (or TLS) secures web services such as banking, online purchases, email and remote access. Popular services such as Twitter , Hotmail and Facebook are increasingly migrating to SSL to improve security and address privacy concerns. As more transactions and services are protected by SSL, DDoS attacks on SSL ...
  4 weeks ago

• India Overtakes US As The Top Source Of Spam

  
  — Authority:
  Spamming is a popular internet activity that is abhorred by most of us but which, nonetheless, continues to be many people’s job. Junk email, in specific, is being used to spread spam and this mode of spamming is still very popular. Now, according to research by IT security company Sophos, India has overtaken US in ...
  4 weeks ago

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