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Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
White Paper Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a significant quantity of innocent... [20 Jun 2009]
How global computing grid could save the world
News Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals Photos: The tech that holds up the net A global grid of computers could one day be used to protect the world against disease pandemics and natural disasters. It's a... [20 Oct 2008]
Is Nokia losing its enterprise mojo?
Comment Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals Photos: The tech that holds up the net Nokia has announced it will stop marketing its own unified communications offerings for enterprise mobility. Natasha Lomas asks... [06 Oct 2008]
Firefox 3.1 to jump on privacy bandwagon?
News Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals Photos: The tech that holds up the net The next version of Firefox is likely to add a private surfing mode to Mozilla's popular browser. Such functionality is already... [16 Sep 2008]
IE8 unleashed as Microsoft plays Firefox catch-up
News Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals Photos: The tech that holds up the net Microsoft released the second public beta for Internet Explorer 8 on Wednesday. If anything, this release brings IE up to par... [28 Aug 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment They have the keys to the kingdom, and whilst the growing inefficiency of the net generates inflated sales in the short term, the exponential rise of bot networks will ultimately overwhelm them too.... [19 Feb 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Freedom
Comment And then there are all the tools used by the spreaders of viral infections and bot networks. I have just been reading an article on repression and over the past year there seems to have been an acceleration in the number... [15 May 2006]
VeriSign warns of DoS evolution
News As a result, the DNS server, rather than the bot, makes the direct attack on the victim. While it is possible to stop a bot-delivered DoS attack by blocking the bot's IP address,... [17 Mar 2006]
Is latest can of worms a cyber-crime turf war?
News The worms include "bot" code, or a program that lets the attacker control a compromised system remotely. The recent surge in worms could be part of an underground battle to hijack PCs for use in net... [18 Aug 2005]
Sick virus writer exploits London bomb blast
News A virus has been spotted in the wild which attempts to exploit concerns surrounding the bomb blasts which rocked London last Thursday and left at least 50 people dead. Warning levels are currently low but that makes the attempt to infect... [09 Jul 2005]
Opinion: Is cybercrime unstoppable?
Comment In September 2004 a Norwegian internet company shut down a bot-net controlling 10,000 machines. The UK apparently leads the world in terms of 'bot nets', or collections of compromised... [11 Apr 2005]
Zombies are after your ID
News A bot-net onslaught is believed to have caused an outage at internet service provider Akamai Technologies last summer. The bot net's controller would then collect the... [15 Mar 2005]
MyDoom: The virus that changed the world
News The creation of these 'bot-net' networks represented a coming together of virus writers, spammers and organised crime. It's been exactly one year since the launch of the MyDoom virus that dominated many... [26 Jan 2005]
Zombie PC army responsible for big name web blackout
News A security professional who participated in investigating the attack confirmed that the DDoS attack apparently came from an extremely large bot net. and other major websites earlier this week involved... [17 Jun 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ever-evolving virus
Comment It's a 'bot', or virus-like infection under the remote control of a distant computer, network or individual. The good news, if you can call it that, is that bot technology is in its infancy and the... [20 May 2004]
