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Botnets as a Vehicle for Online Crime
White Papers An analysis of real-world botnets indicates the increasing sophistication of bot malware and its thoughtful engineering as an effective tool for profit-motivated online crime. This analysis of source code and captured binaries has provided insight...
[April 14, 2006, 1:01]
Security experts: Botnets biggest threat on net
News Botnets are the biggest global threat facing the internet today, according to security experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week. Winkler said there needs to be a fundamental change in people's attitudes to effectively...
[April 11, 2008, 9:32]
Botnets use Windows for wicked work
News Despite Microsoft's renewed focus on security, latest research shows that computers running Microsoft Windows XP and 2000 form the bulk of networks of compromised computers, commonly called botnets. The study carried out by the German Honeynet...
[March 16, 2005, 16:15]
Stopping Zombies, Botnets and Other Email-And Web-Borne Threats
White Papers This paper discusses how the threat has evolved, explains how zombie networks, or botnets, are created and highlights how even organizations with reliable gateway and endpoint protection are vulnerable to these email- and web-borne threats.
[June 11, 2009, 1:20]
Botnets lead way in spam charge
News Spam made up 90.4 percent of all email traffic in June, with botnets accounting for over 80 percent of unsolicited messages, according to a new report from Symantec's MessageLabs. In May, 57.6 percent of spam was sent from known botnets, with...
[July 1, 2009, 12:57]
Botnets: The New Threat Landscape
White Papers The rise of consumer broadband has greatly increased the power of botnets to launch crippling Denial of Service (DoS) attacks on servers, infect millions of computers with spyware and other malicious code, steal identity data, send out vast...
[June 13, 2008, 1:01]
'Fast-flux' domains help botnets evade capture
News Botnets are proving increasingly resilient and harder to shut down. The study's authors, Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks and Thorsten Holz of the University of Mannheim, tracked the traffic of 900 fast-flux domain names used by botnets within the...
[October 9, 2008, 10:03]
The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, and Disrupting Botnets
White Papers Botnets are a very real and quickly evolving problem that is still not well understood or studied. This paper outlines the origins and structure of bots and botnets and use data from the operator community, the Internet Motion Sensor project, and a...
[June 9, 2006, 1:00]
Botnets
Talkback The only way to fight botnets is to encourage individuals to TURN THEIR COMPUTER OFF when they are not using it. Are we not wasting our time by trying to fight software with software? Hackers are using our very own computers against us in much the...
[March 20, 2008, 15:55]
Killing Botnets
White Papers The growth of botnets represents the greatest threat to individuals and nations. It further explains how McAfee network IPS solutions provide real benefits as an effective tool to combat botnets. This white paper describes an actual incident and...
[March 8, 2007, 0:00]
Businesses targeted by small botnets
News The majority of botnets in enterprises are small and targeted, according to security firm Damballa. Enterprise botnets typically consist of a network of fewer than 100 machines, in contrast to botnets in the general internet population, according...
[September 30, 2009, 17:27]
IRC admins claim TimeWarner hijacks DNS to clean botnets
Blog It is well known that botnets consisting of large numbers of compromised PCs are becoming more of a problem and are harder to find, harder to fight and harder to destroy. Many botnets use the IRC protocol for communication and control, so it makes...
[July 25, 2007, 15:12]
F-Secure sees smaller botnets on the rise
News Cybercriminals are downsizing their botnets to try and trick software security companies. But researchers at antivirus company F-Secure have reported seeing these large networks being broken down into smaller groups of compromised computers because...
[October 1, 2007, 9:23]
RSA sees increase in fast-flux botnets
News Fast-flux is a DNS technique that distributes command-and-control by constantly reallocating the servers controlling peer-to-peer botnets. Fast-flux can also be associated with the allocation of proxy servers to hide static command-and-control...
[March 18, 2008, 11:56]
Botnets and spyware still on the rise
Talkback Reality is that much of the information security relies on "that people should do this" and "that people shouldn't do that". All the law making in the world won't help here. Unless you like watching people jumping thru hoops all of the time.
[July 12, 2005, 16:02]
Randex youths made botnets for gaming
News Botnets, armies of compromised networked computers, have become a common tool for professional spammers. Two teenage hackers, who were convicted for their involvement with the Randex worm, used a 30,000-strong Windows botnet to beat opponents in...
[December 23, 2004, 11:55]
30,000 botnets march across the Internet
News The number of botnets has gone in the last year from 2,000 to about 30,000," said Clarke, now chairman of Good Harbor Consulting. Former security advisor to the White House Richard Clarke said the number of zombie networked machines has risen to 15...
[November 5, 2004, 14:48]
Most spam generated by botnets, says expert
News And according to anti-spam experts, Florida-based spammers are booking air time on Russian owned botnets to send their junk mail. Linford said that every week more than 100,000 PCs are recruited into botnets without the owner's knowledge.
[September 22, 2004, 18:10]
Botnets?
Talkback How do you know if you have them? Very simple, if you run windoze, you are prone to be infected.
[April 12, 2008, 4:54]
30,000 botnets march across the Internet
Talkback Will symptom fighting help to resolve causes? No, it'll only prolong the pain. In the mean time yet another layer is added to the complexity of the problem. And yet another layer of fingerpointing possibilities is added to the mix.
[November 5, 2004, 21:45]
