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White Paper This MessageLabs White Paper looks at the botnet threat and how it has evolved into a serious danger to business. It also gives a snapshot of botnet activity based on data gathered by MessageLabs from... [19 Oct 2009]
Your Botnet Is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover
White Paper This paper reports on efforts to take control of the Torpig botnet and study its operations for a period of ten days. While botnets have been "Hijacked" and studied previously, the Torpig botnet exhibits... [02 Oct 2009]
The Gestalt Approach to IT Security Takes Shape
White Paper In fact, most of today's threats are blended, meaning that an exploit might enter a corporation through e-mail, then pass through the web which ends up having botnet traffic that eventually infects a client and phones... [30 Aug 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News A Twitter account can be used as the command centre for harnessing a "botnet" of virus-infected computers, security firms Arbor Networks and Symantec reported. But in this case, the Twittering botnet... [17 Aug 2009]
Threat Management: Focus on Malicious URLs
White Paper Enticed to click on these malicious links by persuasive social engineering, users are unknowingly succumbing to information theft, participation in a larger botnet, and other nefarious activities. At the heart of many... [15 Aug 2009]
How to Defend Against New Botnets
White Paper Our latest industry whitepaper, "How to Defend Against New Botnet Attacks" aims to help you understand: Recent changes in Botnet activity According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were... [14 Aug 2009]
Was Twitter, Facebook denial-of-service the result of attack on a single account?
News Such co-ordinated attacks require the efforts of tens of thousands or more of hijacked computers, which together form a botnet. A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal and Google's Blogger and... [07 Aug 2009]
Symbian security slip-up: Trojan passes security test
News The botnet-building Trojan, which calls itself Sexy Space, passed through the group's digital signing process, Symbian's chief security technologist Craig Heath said on Thursday. The Symbian Foundation has acknowledged... [20 Jul 2009]
Data moving to the cloud? Cybercrime will follow
News His office also has been tracking a botnet for a long time that has grown to include 100,000 or so compromised computers. As data moves to the cloud, attackers and thieves will follow, a US federal prosecutor said on... [13 Jul 2009]
Short URLs on spammers' hit-lists
News A major spam botnet called Donbot has aggressively moved to using this technique, Sergeant said. Email security provider MessageLabs said on Tuesday it saw a dramatic spike in the number of spam emails that include... [08 Jul 2009]
SMS flaw leaves iPhone vulnerable to attack
News An attacker could exploit a weakness in the way iPhones handle SMS messages to do things like use GPS to track the phone's location, turn on the microphone for eavesdropping, or take control of the device and add it to a... [03 Jul 2009]
Detection and Prevention Methods of Botnet-Generated Spam
White Paper This paper illustrates these methods and discusses what measures can be taken against them to address the spamming botnet threat. Although anti-spam measures are improving, the spam volume is increasing due to the use of... [01 Jul 2009]
Infiltrating WALEDAC Botnet's Covert Operations: Effective Social Engineering, Encrypted HTTP2P Communications, and Fast-Fluxing Network
White Paper The WALEDAC botnet has been involved in an almost continuous spate of spam runs since researchers discovered it in December 2008. This botnet has the ability to update details such as the subject line... [01 Jul 2009]
Combating Botnets Using the Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter
White Paper This paper discusses the nature of botnets, the threats they pose to today's networks, and how the Cisco Botnet Traffic Filter enables Cisco ASA appliances to fight botnets and to handle their dynamic nature. [01 Jul 2009]
Antisocial Networks: Turning a Social Network Into a Botnet
White Paper Antisocial Networks are distributed systems based on social networking Web sites that can be exploited by attackers, and directed to carry out network attacks. Malicious users are able to take control of the visitors of social sites by... [01 Jul 2009]
