FBI and British Law Enforcement Seeking Botnet Builders
British Law enforcement and the FBI are actively looking for the individuals that created the largest botnet, reports World Watch from CBS News.
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Massive Botnet found on almost 2 million PCs
A large botnet from the Ukraine that has infected nearly 2 million computers is stunning security researchers, reports DarkReading.
Apr 26, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Juvenile Botner sentenced to 11 months in prison
A male juvenile, who has been widely known in the hacker underground by his online moniker, “DSHOCKER,” was sentenced today in federal court to 11 months in prison, to be served in a juvenile detention facility, for computer intrusion, interstate threats, and wire fraud, stemming from hacking, botnet, and “swatting” activities. In accordance with federal [...]
Apr 24, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Ustream redesign changed ustream chat behavior
If you had your Ustream channel page redirected to WyldRyde you were probably surprised to find out this evening that your Ustream flash chat no longer goes to WyldRyde but to Ustream’s own chat server instead. Ustream launched a redesign minutes ago and reset all the chat rooms back to their own chat server. Apparently, [...]
Apr 23, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Conficker Worm Targeting Microsoft Windows Systems
US-CERT is reporting that they’re aware of widespread infection of the Conficker Worm. The worm infects computers running Microsoft Windows via a thumb drive, a network share, or directly across the network if the host is not patched with update MS08-067.
Mar 30, 2009 | 2 comments | View Post
Make usrbingeek act like a fool on April Fools!
On Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 from 9PM to 12PM ET we’ll be holding the first ever Subservient Usrbingeek! Just as with our Annual New Year’s Eve Party, usrbingeek will acts out any reasonable request in-exchange for a minimum $5.00 donation to WyldRyde.* Make Steve plug web sites, sing songs, dance, answer photography, IRC, tech and [...]
Mar 22, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Botneter sentenced to 4 years in prison
In the first US prosecution of its kind, John Schiefer, 27, of Los Angeles, also known as “acidstorm,” was sentenced last week to 48 months in federal prison for using “botnets” to steal the identities of victims throughout the country by extracting information from their personal computers and wiretapping their communications, according the US Department [...]
Mar 11, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Stability improvements completed
A data center that hosts one of our key hub servers was experiencing very short, infrequent and intermittent transatlantic routing issues which resulted in brief netsplits between our EU and US servers. Normally, routing issues like these are corrected by the data center and/or peer and connectivity providers within a few weeks. However since the [...]
Mar 04, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
Microsoft offering $250,000 reward for Conficker creator
The windows worm commonly known as Conficker is creating havoc by exploiting a vulnerability in the Windows Server service (SVCHOST.EXE). When the vulnerability is successfully exploited, it may allow remote code execution when file sharing is enabled. Depending on the specific variant, it may also spread via removable drives and by exploiting weak passwords. It [...]
Feb 16, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
How To Setup mIRC
mIRC is easily the most popular IRC client for Windows. With it you can connect to WyldRyde and chat in many channels. You may also use it to run very simple to very complex scripts that can even allow you to setup mIRC as a full featured IRC Bot. How To Setup mIRC for Windows: [...]
Feb 04, 2009 | 0 comments | View Post
