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The Weekly Round-Up: Grubby gadgets, multitasking maniacs and embarrassing virus writers

When nature calls, so does the boss... Read more

20 August, 2010 by The Round-Up

Malware's next trick

Those looking to cause trouble or just make money electronically are getting ever-more ingenious Read more

18 April, 2006 by Ron Condon

DNS recursion leads to nastier DoS attacks

Direct botnet attacks can be unpleasant; VeriSign is now warning of a more insidious threat Read more

17 March, 2006 by Dawn Kawamoto

30,000 botnets march across the Internet

RSA Conference: Tens of thousands of botnets are exploiting security weaknesses in computers around the world, according to security experts Read more

5 November, 2004 by Dan Ilett

Worm sparks rise in zombie PCs

...Tuesday, CipherTrust reported a 23 percent growth in the total number of zombie PCs detected this week alone, due, they said, to the release of... Read more

22 August, 2006 by Colin Barker

Brightmail's new software tackles zombies

...software, Anti-Spam 6.0, which includes features designed to deal with zombie PCs, an improved ability to deal with foreign-language spam and a... Read more

1 July, 2004 by Ingrid Marson

Microsoft's anti-spam plan 'hijacked by zombies'

...practice this approach might be flawed, because most spam is sent from zombie PCs, computers that have been infected by a type of virus or... Read more

4 June, 2004 by Munir Kotadia

Californian bot herder pleads guilty

The first person to face charges related to profiting from networks of zombie PCs has plead guilty in the US Read more

24 January, 2006 by Dan Ilet

Microsoft launches anti-spam site

...should help cut out spam and help ISPs locate, quarantine and disinfect zombie PCs Read more

27 May, 2005 by Dawn Kawamoto

Most spam generated by botnets, says expert

...says that 70 percent of spam now comes from botnets - networks of zombie PCs captured in previous security attacks Read more

22 September, 2004 by Dan Ilet

Botnets lead way in spam charge

...new report from Symantec's MessageLabs. Spam sent out from networks of zombie PCs made up 83.2 percent of unsolicited email messages this month... Read more

1 July, 2009 by Vivian Yeo

Windows has fewest security holes

...from 1 July to 31 December 2006, also reveals the number of 'zombie' PCs hijacked by hackers and used to launch denial of service attacks... Read more

23 March, 2007 by Andy McCue

You may say I'm a dreamer...

...they'd gone to the trouble of setting up a network of zombie PCs controlled by bots – but is that so much trouble, these days... Read more

8 December, 2006

The A to Z of security

...X Y is for You Z is for Zero-day Armies of zombie PCs are used by cyber criminals for sending spam or viruses or... Read more

14 November, 2006 by Natasha Lomas

Increase in Windows attacks reported

...seen a 23 percent growth in the total number of so-called zombie PCs it has detected and attributed that to the spread of Mocbot... Read more

1 September, 2006 by Joris Evers

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