items tagged with Botnets
iWork Trojan reappears in Photoshop CS4 crack
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-01-26 14:08:54
A variant of the iWorkServices Trojan for Mac OS X that appeared last week is now circulating with an unauthorised copy of Adobe Photoshop CS4.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Core Dump
Category: Apple and anything else
2009-01-26 14:08:54
A variant of the iWorkServices Trojan for Mac OS X that appeared last week is now circulating with an unauthorised copy of Adobe Photoshop CS4.
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TrustDefender highlights danger of updated Torpig rootkit and variants
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-01-13 09:22:00
Rootkits are the not-so-secret, yet increasingly sophisticated weapon of online criminals targeting Windows users even before their computer boots up, with the Mebroot / Sinowal / Torpig rootkit potentially the worst of the bunch, completely invisible to traditional AV programs – but not to TrustDefender.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2009-01-13 09:22:00
Rootkits are the not-so-secret, yet increasingly sophisticated weapon of online criminals targeting Windows users even before their computer boots up, with the Mebroot / Sinowal / Torpig rootkit potentially the worst of the bunch, completely invisible to traditional AV programs – but not to TrustDefender.
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Watch out crims: AFP and Telstra to fight hi-tech crime
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-10 00:32:32
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it is engaging in a new partnership with Australian telco Telstra to “strengthen its world-leading capability in countering new technology-enabled crime”.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Telecommunications
Category: News
2008-12-10 00:32:32
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says it is engaging in a new partnership with Australian telco Telstra to “strengthen its world-leading capability in countering new technology-enabled crime”.
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Undead Mega-D is back in control of the sex spam zombies
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-12-09 07:34:43
Look, everyone knew the day was coming, there is no escaping that fact. It doesn't make it any the more disappointing, but it should hardly be filed under surprise of the year: the Mega-D Botnet is back in action.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-12-09 07:34:43
Look, everyone knew the day was coming, there is no escaping that fact. It doesn't make it any the more disappointing, but it should hardly be filed under surprise of the year: the Mega-D Botnet is back in action.
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Srizbi down but not quite out
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-12-01 20:45:59
The Srizbi botnet has proved sufficiently robust to partially recover from the isolation of its command and control servers. So much for claims that it was 'completely defunct'.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-12-01 20:45:59
The Srizbi botnet has proved sufficiently robust to partially recover from the isolation of its command and control servers. So much for claims that it was 'completely defunct'.
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E-gads... AVG warns of 500 million strong e-card threat
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-11-26 19:21:49
E-eek! That nice Christmas e-card could be an e-threat, says AVG, and while the danger of e-cards is theoretically well known, the e-conomic crisis (and e-co climate concerns) is forcing some to consider sending e-cards instead of the real thing. As this means some e-cards you receive could be real, amongst plenty of fakes, caution is re-quired!
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Fuzzy Logic
Category: The gadget blog
2008-11-26 19:21:49
E-eek! That nice Christmas e-card could be an e-threat, says AVG, and while the danger of e-cards is theoretically well known, the e-conomic crisis (and e-co climate concerns) is forcing some to consider sending e-cards instead of the real thing. As this means some e-cards you receive could be real, amongst plenty of fakes, caution is re-quired!
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Spam Wars: Return of the Rustock
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-11-26 00:19:36
I hope you enjoyed the brief respite from spam that was observed following the takedown of McColo, because levels are rising again.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-11-26 00:19:36
I hope you enjoyed the brief respite from spam that was observed following the takedown of McColo, because levels are rising again.
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Beware November 24: Black Monday for malware?
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-11-18 15:11:01
One security vendor is warning that next Monday - November 24 - is likely to bring the year's highest incidence of online attacks. Should we batten down the hatches or turn our computers off?
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-11-18 15:11:01
One security vendor is warning that next Monday - November 24 - is likely to bring the year's highest incidence of online attacks. Should we batten down the hatches or turn our computers off?
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Hosting provider takedown slashes spam volumes
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-11-13 00:02:53
Could isolating just one hosting company significantly affect spam volumes? Apparently it can - and has!
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-11-13 00:02:53
Could isolating just one hosting company significantly affect spam volumes? Apparently it can - and has!
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Death of a Botnet
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-10-15 09:44:04
The once King of Spam is dead. But before you celebrate too much, His Royal Spamness has been terminally ill for many months, and there are plenty of young pretenders ready to wear the junk mail crown.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-10-15 09:44:04
The once King of Spam is dead. But before you celebrate too much, His Royal Spamness has been terminally ill for many months, and there are plenty of young pretenders ready to wear the junk mail crown.
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The BT Business Botnet Buster
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-09-07 03:42:08
Malicious botnet attacks represent a growing threat to enterprise networks. Which is probably why BT's Managed Security Solutions Group has launched it's Business Botnet Buster...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Enterprise
2008-09-07 03:42:08
Malicious botnet attacks represent a growing threat to enterprise networks. Which is probably why BT's Managed Security Solutions Group has launched it's Business Botnet Buster...
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An Inconvenient Truth: Spam Sells Lots of Sex and Drugs
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-08-19 13:24:12
It is the question that everyone who stops to think about the amount of spam they get asks at least once: does anyone actually buy this stuff? The answer, it seems, is that 29 percent of us do and we are buying sex and drugs...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-08-19 13:24:12
It is the question that everyone who stops to think about the amount of spam they get asks at least once: does anyone actually buy this stuff? The answer, it seems, is that 29 percent of us do and we are buying sex and drugs...
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5 million fake news spams per hour
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-17 18:24:30
There's a good chance that you've seen at least one of the spoofed CNN or MSNBC spam messages that are doing the rounds - as many as 5 million of them are being sent per hour.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Security
2008-08-17 18:24:30
There's a good chance that you've seen at least one of the spoofed CNN or MSNBC spam messages that are doing the rounds - as many as 5 million of them are being sent per hour.
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What is the speed of spam? 7.8 billion messages per hour!
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-08-12 08:40:26
The key findings of the latest Marshal Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) report for the first half of 2008 have just been published. Unsurprisingly, they make for some pretty ugly reading...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-08-12 08:40:26
The key findings of the latest Marshal Threat Research and Content Engineering (TRACE) report for the first half of 2008 have just been published. Unsurprisingly, they make for some pretty ugly reading...
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Rustock takes spambot gold with Olympic surge
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-08-08 05:59:43
When it comes to endurance races, the Srizbi spambot takes some beating as far as distributing the most malicious spam across the planet is concerned. Thanks to an Olympic surge from new kid on the bot race blocks, Rustock, has sprinted past the old man of spam to take a dubious gold...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-08-08 05:59:43
When it comes to endurance races, the Srizbi spambot takes some beating as far as distributing the most malicious spam across the planet is concerned. Thanks to an Olympic surge from new kid on the bot race blocks, Rustock, has sprinted past the old man of spam to take a dubious gold...
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F****** Microsoft and that W***** George Bush help boost spam traffic
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-07-28 09:15:50
The cybercriminal gangs that control the Rustock Botnet have enlisted the help of George Bush, Microsoft, Paris Hilton, Spongebob and some choice expletives in order to push its share of global spam traffic up by 21.5 percent in the last month. So why am I trying to suppress a giggle?
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-07-28 09:15:50
The cybercriminal gangs that control the Rustock Botnet have enlisted the help of George Bush, Microsoft, Paris Hilton, Spongebob and some choice expletives in order to push its share of global spam traffic up by 21.5 percent in the last month. So why am I trying to suppress a giggle?
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10 million zombies go after Google and Microsoft users brains
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-07-28 04:55:24
No longer the stuff of low-budget movies, zombies are invading the Internet: around 10 million of them in the last three months alone. The horror is revealed in a new report which shows that Google Adwords and Microsoft users brains are amongst the most sought after zombie food...
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-07-28 04:55:24
No longer the stuff of low-budget movies, zombies are invading the Internet: around 10 million of them in the last three months alone. The horror is revealed in a new report which shows that Google Adwords and Microsoft users brains are amongst the most sought after zombie food...
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Spam back on the menu as botnet creating email triples in one week
Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-06-25 04:26:57
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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Written By: Davey Winder
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-06-25 04:26:57
The volume of spam which exists not to sell you stuff, but simply to add your computer to a botnet collective has tripled in just one week. If that weren't worrying enough, it seems that the Srizbi botnet is now responsible for an incredible 46 percent of all spam being distributed.
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The world must unite to fight malware, says OECD
Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-06-02 06:59:06
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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Written By: Stuart Corner
Section: Telecommunications
Category: Policy & Regulation
2008-06-02 06:59:06
The OECD has called for the setting up of a global partnership to combat malware and for Internet service providers and domain name registrars to develop common codes of national and international practice.
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Srizbi sending half the world's spam
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-05-08 01:27:28
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Information technology news
Category: Spam
2008-05-08 01:27:28
The Srizbi botnet is responsible for half of all spam, according a content security company.
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