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Will the OLPC and Classmate Cause Botnet Surge? The Guardian raises a few alarming questions about the low cost One Laptop Per Child and Intel Classmate... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Six Botnets Responsible for 85% of All Spam ArsTechnica reports that six botnets are responsible for 85% of all spam sent by email. Srizbi is not... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Florida Botnet Operator Pleads Guilty Robert Matthew Bentley, 21, Panama City, Florida, plead guilty to conspiracy to commit computer fraud and computer fraud.... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Google Links, Britney, and Paris Used in Spam Botnets SC Magazine reports that emails offering allegedly sexually explicit videos of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are using... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Anti-Malware Testing Standards Are Coming SCMagazineUS.com is reporting that an International group of twenty one security companies have formed an organization to create... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Have Botnets Jumped The Shark? Allysa Myers asked on McAfee's Avert Labs Blog if Botnets have jumped the shark? Has the definition of... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
California Botneter Pleas Guilty John Schiefer, 26, of Los Angeles, California agreed to plead guilty for infecting as many as 250,000 computers... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Storm Worm One of the Most Powerful Supercomputers? PCWorld Canada is reporting that the Storm Worm has infected so many computers that it's now one of... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Who Should Be Responsible For Botnet Removal? Dr. Adam J. O'Donnell asks, "Who should bear the burden of de-fanging botnets?" in an editorial on ZDnet.... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Scientists Consider How To Fight Botnets The University of Wisconsin-Madison News has an interesting story on Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
MSN Messenger Trojan Spreads Botnet eWeek reports that a Trojan spreading over MSN Messenger, which poses as pictures, is actually a malicious IRC... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnets Stumping For Candidates A botnet was discovered to be sending spam email that supported Texas congressman and Presidential candidate, Ron Paul.... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
FBI's Bot Roast II Cracks Down On More Botherders The FBI announced last month the results of Operation Bot Roast II. Three new indictments, including two this... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Alleged CastleCops Attacker Arrested An alleged botnet herder has been arrested for DDoS attacks against CastleCops. Gregory King, 21, of Fairfield, Calif.,... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Smaller botnets becoming more prevalent? Vnunet is reporting that smaller botnets are becoming more popular. Virus writers typically try to build the largest... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Storm Trojan infections not nearly as wide spread as thought? Speculation continues that the Storm Trojan might not have infected as many machines as initially believed. ...Microsoft's Anti-Malware... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnets moving beyond spam and DDoS Symantec has posted an interesting article that describes the continuing evolution of botnets and their new malicious uses... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
iChat vulnerability reported A vulnerability has been reported in Apple iChat which allegedly may be used to cause a Denial of... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnets Stealing eBay Accounts Botnets are now targeting eBay accounts with bruce force attacks, reports ComputerWorld. The attacks against eBay Inc. may... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Tor Admin Arrested CNet reports that a Tor server admin in Germany was arrested back in July. The police were investigating... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
District Attorney's Office Warns About Zombies! The Jefferson County Colorado District Attorney Office is warning people to beware of zombies, reports 9News. Once your... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
iPhone Update Destroys iPhone Modifications Everyone involved with modifying the Apple's iPhone in the #iphone IRC Channel in the hopes of unlocking it... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Unique Botnet Worm Discovered Sophos is reporting that they discovered a new botnet worm that repackages itself pretty uniquely in order to... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Should ISPs Be Compelled To Identify & Stop Botnets? Ryan Naraine questions if Trend Micro's SecureCloud, a Botnet Identification Service for ISPs, will make a difference. While... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Worst Virus Attack In 2 Years Takes Computers By Storm InformationWeek is reporting that Storm authors waging war on the internet with the largest virus attack in the... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Cyber Criminals Out Grow VIrus Attacks BCC News has posted an interesting article, with some quotes from our friends at Shadowserver, describing how attackers... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
DoS Attacks Coming To An End? BCS is reporting that DoS attacks may be coming to an end. Simon Heron, managing director of security... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnets Attacking iPhone Buyers InformationWeek is reporting that Botnets are targeting iPhone buyers in attempt to collect identities and financial information. Researchers... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Symantec Releases AntiBot Software Symantec has released new software specifically to target botnets. Norton AntiBot provides real-time bot detection and removal, according... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnet Wars Have Escalated The "botnet cold war" has escalated into a shooting war, with the lastest variants either uninstalling or attacking... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
ISP Arbitrarily Deletes Customers' Media Files BoingBoing reported that a nutty Australian DSL Provider is allegedly running a program each night that automatically deletes... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Hackers Already Cracked Apple's iPhone A member of the Hackint0sh forums discovered the location of Apple's iPhone restore package and downloaded a copy... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
New Trojan Turns To DNS For C&C A proof of concept Trojan named Backdoor.Fonamebot uses a backdoor in the DNS protocol for its command and... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Phising Is A Global Problem Phishing has turned into a global crime wave. There are few languages that aren't being used in phishing... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Romanian accused of hacking NASA appears In Court Victor Faur appeared in court Tuesday to answer charges for hacking computers at NASA. State prosecutors with special... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Software Pirate Gets 51 Months In Prison The leader of one of the oldest Internet software piracy groups was sentenced to 51 months in prison... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Report Bot Infections To The FBI The FBI is requesting anyone who has a computer that has been infected with bots to file a... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
FBI Operation Bot Roast Off To Successful Start The Department of Justice and FBI announced an ongoing effort to disrupt and dismantle botnets and arrest botherders.... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
File Storing Botnets Gain Popularity Using botnets as remote file storage is gaining popularity according to ZDNet UK. While saying that the risk... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
The Battle For The Bots Since the arrest of the so-called "Spam King," Robert Soloway, authorities and other spammers have been in a... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Antivirus Multiple Vulnerabilities Serious vulnerabilities have been discovered in Avast! Antivirus, Avira Antivir Antivirus, and F-Secure Antivirus. Avast Antivirus versions prior... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Tough Penalties For Botnets And Spyware Coming Congress is considering passing two new bills that carry tougher penalties for botneters, reports Wired. Around 30 percent... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Is It Time For An Internet Driver's License? Stressed out cyber security researchers and botnet fighters are wondering what should be done about the growing botnet... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
World's Most Prolific Spammer Arrested Fox News is reporting the "world's most prolific spammer," Robert Alan Soloway, was arrested by federal authorities Wednesday.... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
So Long Script Kiddies? Information Security Magazine published an interesting article, So Long Script Kiddies by Lenny Zeltser. It makes the argument... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
P2P Networks Being Used for DDoS Attacks Attackers are hijacking P2P nets to launch an increasing number of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks reports... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
JavaScript Enabled Browsers Fuel BotNet Offensive Computing is reporting that the Javascript botnet code previously announced at Shmooconhas been leaked. The code known... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Sophisticated Botnet Manager Discovered Panda Software has discovered a very advanced program that is used to command and control Botnets and to... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnet Wars Botnet hearders are attacking each other in an effort to steal bots from once another. Leading AV researchers... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Criminal Penalties For Botnet Attacks PC World is reporting on the Cyber Security Enhancement Act, which they say would create the first criminal... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Corporations Not Doing Enough To Prevent Botnet Infections Support Intelligence has been publishing the names of corporations who are infected with spambots and other botnets. Dozens... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
E-Gold Indicted for Money Laundering and Illegal Money Transmitting A federal grand jury has indicted E‑Gold Ltd; Gold & Silver Reserve, Inc. and their owners for operating... read more... Comments (1) | Trackbacks (0)
Do Botnet Damage Thresholds Need To Be Changed? Ed Felten gave a Botnet Briefing in Washington last week at an even hosted by the Senate Science... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Why Geeks and Nerds Are Worth It... In the wide world of dating, there are many options. Do you go for the flashy guy with... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
DoS Attacks Losing Luster Botneters are quickly moving away from performing DoS attacks according to Symantec Corp. "The thing is that DoS... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnets getting harder to kill TechWorld has an interesting report on the new P2P style botnets that we're starting to see becoming prevalent.... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnets Growing Larger And Unstoppable? Spam that contains malware has been making the rounds and even infected over 20,000 machines in one day... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnet Behavior Continues To Change The "Sdbot" and "Gaobot" botnets families account for 80% of the world's bots. They are followed by Oscarbot,... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Don't Let Your Computer Become A Zombie A Zombie computer is a computer that is being controlled by a Botneter or Bot Herder. These computers... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Report: China Most Botnet Infested Country In Symantec's semi-annual Internet Security Threat Report, China is now leading the world with the most infected bot... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Tokelau (.tk) and Niue (.nu) most dangerous domains McAfee reports that Tokelau (.tk) and Niue (.nu) host the highest percentage of malicious software. 10% of sites... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Rinbot Worm Takes Down Newsrooms and Corporate Networks A new strain of the Rinbot worm is targeting Symantec's anti-virus clients on corporate networks. The worm reportedly... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Leader of Warez Group Faces 10 Years in Jail Hew Raymond Griffiths, 44, has been charged with conspiracy to commit criminal copyright infringement and one count of... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
California Man Pleads Guilty for Hospital Botnet Attack Christopher Maxwell, 20, of Vacaville, California, has plead guilty to charges to the creation of a "botnet" which... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botneter sentenced to 57 months in prison Jeanson James Ancheta, 20, of Downey, Calif. pleaded guilty to four counts of conspiring to violate the Computer... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
20-year-old charged for botnet attack that endangers Hospital patients The U.S. Attorney's Office in Seattle has sought and won indictments against Christopher Maxwell of Vacaville, Calif. for... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Botnet owner pleads guilty Jeanson James Ancheta, of Downey, California, pleaded guilty in a Federal Court to four felony charges. A November... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Alleged Bot Master Arrested In what prosecutors have labeled the first case of its kind in the nation, a federal grand jury... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Police arrest Botnet controllers Three men have been arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of controlling a vast illegal computer network made... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
Supreme Court: The RIAA, MPAA can F you up the A The US Supreme Court, in an unanimous decision [pdf], ruled that Hollywood and the music industry may file... read more... Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)
Two DDoS'ers Sentenced Today A 16-year-old Canadian teenager plead guilty to charges of mischief against data and fraudulent use of a computer... read more... Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
