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What good are 1,000 remote-controlled PCs? review
Reviews The best way to keep your computer out of a botnet army is to install a good two-way firewall such as that from ZoneAlarm, or even McAfee or Norton. A few weeks ago, a Los Angeles man was arrested and charged with creating a 400,000-PC-strong...
[November 29, 2005, 7:55]
The Passing Storm: The Storm/Nuwar Botnet
White Papers While security software can mitigate the direct impact of Nuwar and other bot-related malware on individual systems, the wider effects of botnet activity need additional countermeasures. Local monitoring and blocking of SMTP traffic from systems...
[June 20, 2009, 1:21]
Phishing shield makes money for ISPs
News NXD is also a pitch for Simplicita's flagship product, a for-pay botnet security system called ZBX that ISPs can also install on their networks. ISPs can install software developed by Simplicita on their networks to display a Yahoo search page...
[March 28, 2007, 9:16]
China leads Asia in malicious online activity
News All you need to do is install a spam plug-in for your botnet, and the botnet is in action," he said. China leads Asia in malicious online activity, racking up 42 percent of the action in the first half of 2007, up from 39 percent last year.
[September 20, 2007, 8:25]
Is Microsoft going to Violate the Military Secrets Export Laws ?
Blog If I was a botnet owner, I'd hand out my cracked copies of Win 7 to everybody I could. Parcel out the decryption task to all your botnet minions with a distributed task program. Rootkits could be submerged inside the Win 7 install.
[February 4, 2009, 12:20]
Pirates on Board the M.S. MoneyTanker!
Blog Microsoft needs to be regulated, forced, coerced, sued and hammered on until they start up a substantial anti-botnet, anti-piracy effort that goes on the offensive against infected systems running their software.
[May 14, 2009, 3:08]
Experts: Chinese censorware carries botnet risk
News This could allow malicious sites to steal private data, send spam, or enlist the computer in a botnet. In addition, Green Dam can be used to install any other program on a computer, via a blacklist vulnerability.
[June 12, 2009, 14:56]
About "User Account Protection":
Talkback Install printer driver and join botnet? Some users report completely uninstallable devices and software.not because of driver issues, but because Vista REFUSED to allow the perfectly valid install to occur.
[November 27, 2006, 14:51]
Linux servers 'attacked more often'
Talkback Once a system has become infected, the attacker can maintain a running list of the entire botnet (network of infected systems) by simply issuing commands through Internet Relay Channel (IRC is a common communication channel used by bots).
[February 20, 2004, 19:15]
Chinese gov't in further Green Dam concessions
Blog However, the Chinese government delayed its rollout following revelations of serious security flaws in the software, which could have allowed hackers to build a huge botnet. PC makers will no longer have to pre-install Green Dam censorware on PCs...
[August 13, 2009, 17:54]
Zombie networks implicated in ID theft
News A botnet onslaught is believed to have caused an outage at Internet service provider Akamai Technologies last summer. While many of the networks had been used to hit other botnets with denial-of-service attacks, others had been used to gather...
[March 15, 2005, 8:15]
Microsoft: Zombies most prevalent Windows threat
News A computer compromised by such a Trojan horse, popularly referred to as a zombie PC, can be used by miscreants in a network of bots, or "botnet", to relay spam and launch cyberattacks. Additionally, hackers often steal the victim's data and install...
[June 13, 2006, 9:20]
DoS attacks: The plague for our times?
News Writers of malicious code know that the majority of broadband computers are poorly maintained, making them ripe targets to install Trojan programs to later use for remote control as a botnet. Several years ago, I worked at a small Web site hosting...
[November 7, 2005, 10:35]
Botnet malware proliferates on Windows PCs
News A computer compromised by such a Trojan horse, popularly referred to as a zombie PC, can be used by miscreants in a network of bots, or "botnet", to relay spam and launch cyberattacks. Additionally, hackers often steal the victim's data and install...
[October 25, 2006, 9:40]
Major Windows exploit 'days away'
News The Trojan horses would let the miscreants remotely control the hijacked PCs and make it part of a network of such computers known as a botnet, an increasing cyberthreat. Attackers are already using the JView Profiler flaw to download and install...
[July 13, 2005, 9:05]
Zombie tool exploits Windows and antivirus flaws
News It can be used by miscreants as part of a network of bots, or "botnet", to relay spam and launch cyberattacks. Additionally, hackers often steal the victim's data and install spyware and adware on PCs, to earn a kickback from the spyware or adware...
[November 30, 2006, 8:24]
Storm worm variant using China quake emails
News Opening the purported video link on the site runs executable code that infects the computer with malicious code that can be used to turn the machine into a zombie on a spam botnet. As always, computer owners and administrators are urged to install...
[June 20, 2008, 8:03]
Pirated Windows 7 RC builds botnet
News A pirated version of Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) infected with a Trojan horse has created a botnet with tens of thousands of bots under its control, according to researchers at security firm Damballa.
[May 13, 2009, 17:23]
Cybercrooks get better at concealing code
News He has spotted an encoded script function called "makemelaugh" that downloads a Trojan horse that captures bank information, and a Paris Hilton Flash animation that installs a tool that makes a PC part of a botnet.
[April 19, 2007, 10:53]
China orders plug for hole in Green Dam
News However, researchers from the University of Michigan revealed in a paper last week that the program contains gaping security flaws, which could lead to users' systems being compromised, and the creation of a massive botnet.
[June 16, 2009, 15:42]
