items tagged with Botnets
New botnets hitting the net, Oz spam levels higher than global average
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-09-30 21:24:29
New botnets are reportedly causing more havoc on the Internet, with botnets now responsible for sending 87.9 percent of all spam, including one of the oldest and largest botnets which has doubled in size in just four months.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-09-30 21:24:29
New botnets are reportedly causing more havoc on the Internet, with botnets now responsible for sending 87.9 percent of all spam, including one of the oldest and largest botnets which has doubled in size in just four months.
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Dramatic drop in virus-infected emails hitting Australia
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-08-25 23:02:55
Australia has dropped like a stone from its number one spot as the country receiving the most virus-infected emails to number 12 in the world, but our level of spam activity is still above the global average despite Australian spam activity decreasing by two percent this month.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-08-25 23:02:55
Australia has dropped like a stone from its number one spot as the country receiving the most virus-infected emails to number 12 in the world, but our level of spam activity is still above the global average despite Australian spam activity decreasing by two percent this month.
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ABC avoids uttering the 'W' word
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-17 21:24:57
What's the one word that comes to mind when people discuss worms, viruses, spyware, malware and botnets?
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-08-17 21:24:57
What's the one word that comes to mind when people discuss worms, viruses, spyware, malware and botnets?
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AVG LinkScanner - keeping the punters off the bot-nets
Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-08-11 22:11:04
Half a million people have downloaded AVG's free LinkScanner product. That's a lot of PCs that won't be part of a botnet.
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Written By: David Heath
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-08-11 22:11:04
Half a million people have downloaded AVG's free LinkScanner product. That's a lot of PCs that won't be part of a botnet.
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Spammers get the upper hand: spam levels at all time high
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-07-21 22:23:46
According to Marshal8e6's TRACElabs weekly spam volumes have broken the record set in July 2008, and have risen 60 percent since the start of 2008 with spammers having learnt how to minimise disruptions to their operations caused by the shutting down of one of their major botnets.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: ExchangeDaily
2009-07-21 22:23:46
According to Marshal8e6's TRACElabs weekly spam volumes have broken the record set in July 2008, and have risen 60 percent since the start of 2008 with spammers having learnt how to minimise disruptions to their operations caused by the shutting down of one of their major botnets.
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Increased threat from short URLs: Report
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-08 00:04:50
There’s been a huge rise in the use of shortened URLs by spammers which poses a greater security threat to Internet users, including those accessing popular social network sites like Twitter.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-07-08 00:04:50
There’s been a huge rise in the use of shortened URLs by spammers which poses a greater security threat to Internet users, including those accessing popular social network sites like Twitter.
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Spam levels stable: Symantec
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-30 00:25:35
Spam levels remain at 90 percent, according to security provider Symantec. But the situation would have worsened if a major botnet hadn't suffered downtime during June.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Virtualisation
2009-06-30 00:25:35
Spam levels remain at 90 percent, according to security provider Symantec. But the situation would have worsened if a major botnet hadn't suffered downtime during June.
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Massive growth in botnets
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-06 03:15:31
Security vendor McAfee reckons nearly 12 million more PCs were recruited into botnets during the first quarter of 2009.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-05-06 03:15:31
Security vendor McAfee reckons nearly 12 million more PCs were recruited into botnets during the first quarter of 2009.
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Government computers caught up in monster botnet
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-22 16:13:06
One botnet, two months, six crooks, 77 government domains, 1.9 million computers. Now that's what you call a malware infection.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-22 16:13:06
One botnet, two months, six crooks, 77 government domains, 1.9 million computers. Now that's what you call a malware infection.
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Mac security under renewed question
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-16 19:30:10
Unpatched vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and a Mac-based botnet! What is the world coming to?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-16 19:30:10
Unpatched vulnerabilities in Mac OS X and a Mac-based botnet! What is the world coming to?
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Conficker likely to cause rise in spam levels
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-16 04:30:02
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-16 04:30:02
That devil of a Conficker worm that’s never far from the surface these days is likely to cause a significant increase in spam levels over the next three months, according to a report by yet another security firm that’s closely monitoring the worm’s exploits.
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Cybercrime surging: and it's your money they're after
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-14 23:04:44
A trio of quite separate reports released this week on different aspects of Internet security reveals an alarmingly rapid increase in the scale, scope and success of organised attacks on IT systems for financial gain.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-14 23:04:44
A trio of quite separate reports released this week on different aspects of Internet security reveals an alarmingly rapid increase in the scale, scope and success of organised attacks on IT systems for financial gain.
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Warning: Conficker worm finally wakes up
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-09 18:25:22
Could the speculation surrounding the Conficker payload be coming to an end as the latest variant of the virulent worm reveals its hand in the form of links to the Waledac malware family and talk of rogue antivirus installations?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Server
2009-04-09 18:25:22
Could the speculation surrounding the Conficker payload be coming to an end as the latest variant of the virulent worm reveals its hand in the form of links to the Waledac malware family and talk of rogue antivirus installations?
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BBC exposes global cybercrime risk
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-15 06:59:40
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology Industry
Category: Deals & Wheels - Contracts
2009-03-15 06:59:40
The BBC in the UK has reported that it has easily acquired its own botnet controlling thousands of home computers as part of an investigation into global cybercrime.
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Craven BBC avoids naming botnet hosts
Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-13 19:24:48
The BBC has pulled off a stunt of some magnitude in purchasing a botnet made up of 20,000-odd computers and using them to demonstrate the power such a group has to send spam or launch a distributed denial of service attack.
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Written By: Sam Varghese
Section: Open Sauce
Category: Linux Blog
2009-03-13 19:24:48
The BBC has pulled off a stunt of some magnitude in purchasing a botnet made up of 20,000-odd computers and using them to demonstrate the power such a group has to send spam or launch a distributed denial of service attack.
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Would you let a convicted botnet builder keep his job?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-03-06 07:41:16
As a security consultant gets four years in prison for helping to build a botnet which infected a quarter million computers, his IT company boss says he will give him a job when he is released.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-03-06 07:41:16
As a security consultant gets four years in prison for helping to build a botnet which infected a quarter million computers, his IT company boss says he will give him a job when he is released.
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IIA says be aware and beware of zombie PCs
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-03-02 16:15:05
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has launched a "National Zombie Awareness Week" to respond to "The rapid rise of infected personal computers.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Information technology news
Category: Internet
2009-03-02 16:15:05
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has launched a "National Zombie Awareness Week" to respond to "The rapid rise of infected personal computers.
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Could Sexy View SMS worm build the first mobile botnet?
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-20 04:05:15
Watch out mobile phone users, a new worm is in the wild and spreading via text message. Worryingly, security experts warn it could be building the world's first mobile botnet.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-20 04:05:15
Watch out mobile phone users, a new worm is in the wild and spreading via text message. Worryingly, security experts warn it could be building the world's first mobile botnet.
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Valentine’s viruses vandalise victim’s PCs
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-15 00:11:24
Ongoing virus and malware threats won’t stop anytime soon, with Valentine’s Day proving to be the latest opportunity for malware writers to wreak havoc on PC users – but shouldn’t PC users be well aware of the threats by now?
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-15 00:11:24
Ongoing virus and malware threats won’t stop anytime soon, with Valentine’s Day proving to be the latest opportunity for malware writers to wreak havoc on PC users – but shouldn’t PC users be well aware of the threats by now?
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Those dreaded botnets are still at it as spam volumes return to pre-McColo takedown levels
Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-03 06:21:12
Spam continues to pour into the mailboxes of internet users worldwide, despite concerted efforts by security and law enforcement agencies to stop the deluge, including a decisive but ultimately temporary blow late last year.
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Written By: Peter Dinham
Section: Technology feature
Category: Enterprise
2009-02-03 06:21:12
Spam continues to pour into the mailboxes of internet users worldwide, despite concerted efforts by security and law enforcement agencies to stop the deluge, including a decisive but ultimately temporary blow late last year.
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