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UK Anonymous keeps up DDoS barrage on ICO

...a network of around 75,000 compromised or 'zombie' computers called a 'botnet' to launch the DDoS attacks using automated attack methods only, an ATeam... Read more

16 May, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Second Kelihos botnet steps into a sinkhole

...vendors has claimed the scalp of the second incarnation of the Kelihos botnet, believed to be almost three times the size of its spam-sending... Read more

28 March, 2012 by Tom Espiner

Kelihos botnet returns from the dead

...A once-dead botnet has been resurrected and resumed its spamming ways. The original Kelihos botnet... Read more

3 February, 2012 by Stephen Musil

Microsoft fingers alleged Kelihos botnet culprit

...Four months after taking down the Kelihos botnet, Microsoft on Monday identified the man it believes was behind the massive... Read more

24 January, 2012 by Steven Musil

Koobface botnet gang exposed by researchers

...The suspected ringleaders of the Koobface botnet have been identified and appear to be five men based in Russia... Read more

17 January, 2012 by Jack Clark

Microsoft stamps on Kelihos botnet

...Microsoft has put a halt to the Kelihos botnet and is accusing a Czech resident of hosting the botnet and using... Read more

28 September, 2011 by Elinor Mills

Microsoft turns Rustock botnet case over to FBI

...over to the FBI, in the hopes the agency will bring the botnet's ringleader to justice. One reason Microsoft is finishing its own investigation... Read more

23 September, 2011 by Jay Greene

Microsoft offers $250,000 Rustock botnet bounty

...dollars in an attempt to catch the controllers of the Rustock spamming botnet. Microsoft offered the $250,000 (£155,000) bounty for information leading to... Read more

19 July, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Microsoft takes down Rustock spam botnet

...triggered several co-ordinated raids on Wednesday that took down Rustock, a botnet that infected millions of computers with malicious code in order to turn... Read more

18 March, 2011 by Jay Greene

Rustock botnet goes quiet again

...has gone offline for the second time in three months. The Rustock botnet stopped sending out email on Wednesday, the Composite Blocking List (CBL) said... Read more

17 March, 2011 by Tom Espiner

Dutch police take down Bredolab botnet

Dutch police have uprooted a large information-stealing botnet known as Bredolab, thought to have infected more than 30 million computers... Read more

26 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner
How botnets' rise foretells malware's future

How botnets' rise foretells malware's future

...my mind, two contenders vie for being the malware that started the botnet ball rolling: Sub7 and Pretty Park — a Trojan and a worm respectively... Read more

15 October, 2010 by Rik Ferguson

Rustock botnet responsible for 39 percent of all spam

...in April, and almost half of that spam comes from a single botnet, Rustock. Rustock sent 41 percent of the world's botnet spam in... Read more

25 August, 2010 by Jack Clark

Met Police: UK botnet command server taken out

An Eastern European command-and-control server for a botnet that targets UK banking customers and businesses has been taken down, according... Read more

5 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Symbian S60 phones targeted by botnet-building viruses

...NetQin has not been in touch directly to inform it of the botnet. The foundation's usual process when faced with reported malware is to... Read more

7 July, 2010 by Ben Woods

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

7 minutes ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

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I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

4 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

5 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

5 hours ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

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minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

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knapper

That we have :-) Retailers don't buy stuff to lie around in warehouses, particularly with fast moving technology products. If they didn't think...

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JohneKerr

I think that we have been here before, shipments are not equal to sales. Correct?

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I received the notification of Mageia 2 being released on Saturday, was already running Mageia 1. After running the installation X came back up...

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Burn-IT

Yes it is basically down to "nobody in control understands IT, is willing to admit it, or allow decisions to be delegated". Lets get someone in who...

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pjc158

So let me get this straight just because a consultant has oberved that mobile companies who get in trouble never recover, well we all might as well...

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@191706> *their* own Mac Thank you for picking up the errant spelling :) @apexwm > Mac OS X for Intel machines is supposed to run in VirtualBox...

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archerthom

I'm imagining Batman-style sonar imaging that will detect the cat and Lego bricks in the dark - I'm going to be disappointed aren't I?

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unlockworldwide

May I quote Horace Dediu, who runs the consultancy Asmyco who has repeatedly observed that mobile phone companies that fall into loss – even once...

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