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whitepaper This increase is largely attributed to the huge rise in botnet activity over the past few weeks. This report provides the latest threat trends for October 2006, to keep you informed regarding the ongoing fight against viruses, spam and other...
[26 Sep 2007]
News Criminals behind the Storm Worm have created a botnet containing millions of PCs which have a combined computing power greater than the most powerful supercomputer in existence. The Storm Worm botnet has been estimated to control between one...
[12 Sep 2007]
whitepaper This increase is largely attributed to the huge rise in botnet activity over the past few weeks. This report provides the latest threat trends for October 2006, to keep you informed regarding the ongoing fight against viruses, spam and other...
[05 Sep 2007]
whitepaper A botnet, short for robot network, is an aggregation of computers compromised by bots that are connected to a central "controller. These botnet controllers are often controlled from chat rooms. Botnet controllers can be linked together to form even...
[01 Aug 2007]
News Those episodes included unauthorised users hooking up personal computers to government networks, unauthorised software installations, classified emails traveling over unclassified networks, suspicious botnet activity, trojans and virus infections...
[21 Jun 2007]
whitepaper Service providers must provide effective security to protect against viruses, worms, botnet attacks, Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, SPAM, and phishing. Threats to network security are growing and varied.
[09 Jun 2007]
News Daley added the research will focus on finding widely distributed abuse - for example somebody trying to steal addresses from hundreds of thousands of computers using a botnet. The dot-uk domain name registry has teamed up with university security...
[26 Apr 2007]
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.
[19 Apr 2007]
News Ultimately, computers infected with this virus become unknowing "zombies" in a botnet that are used to send out spam and further the attacks. The largest proliferation of email virus attacks in more than a year is likely to have occurred last...
[16 Apr 2007]
News At that time botnet activity switched dramatically from China to Europe within around six minutes, he said. Ispa, the UK's internet service providers' association, will today make a presentation to the House of Lords science and technology...
[14 Mar 2007]
whitepaper This paper provides an insight into the scale of botnet attacks that have so far received limited news coverage. The growth of botnets represents the greatest threat to individuals and nations. This white paper describes an actual incident and...
[07 Mar 2007]
News They used the hijacked systems in a network, popularly called a botnet, to steal credit card numbers and other personal data, and to blackmail online businesses by threatening to take down their websites.
[01 Feb 2007]
News Juergen Quittek, senior manager at NEC Network Labs, said: "Now the telephony world is migrating to internet telephony, botnet platforms can be used to create spam phone calls as well as emails. Networking vendor NEC has warned businesses that...
[29 Jan 2007]
News Sunner said around the turn of the year security experts were watching one botnet, called Spam Thru, which not only had its own antivirus protection to clear other botnets off 'its patch' but had the potential to be 10 times more productive than...
[26 Jan 2007]
News The compromised machine becomes a zombie in a network called a botnet. Most botnets are currently controlled through a central server, which - if found - can be taken down to destroy the botnet. However, this particular Trojan horse seeds a botnet...
[23 Jan 2007]
News Over an eight-hour period yesterday, the worm sent malicious emails across the globe to hundreds of thousands of people, who unknowingly were part of a botnet, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure.
[19 Jan 2007]
News It can be used by miscreants as part of a network of bots, or 'botnet', to relay spam and launch cyber attacks. An updated variant of a malicious bot program is spreading via a flaw in Symantec's antivirus software as well as through several holes...
[30 Nov 2006]
whitepaper This paper examines the existence of and interactions within the botnet ecosystem that enables phishing and its ensuing damage. It also provides information on how businesses and consumers can protect themselves against these attacks.
[29 Nov 2006]
News He then used this botnet of hijacked computers to send a massive amount of traffic to the DNS servers of the Global Traffic Management division of Akamai, prosecutors alleged. A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial of...
[25 Oct 2006]
News After a user's system is infected, it becomes part of a botnet - a group of computers controlled remotely to distribute such malicious attacks as viruses or Trojans. A new AOL instant-messaging worm is making the rounds, carrying a malicious...
[20 Sep 2006]
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