botnets in comment and analysis
Leader: Phishers raise their game
Leader B is for Botnets This morning news broke that the Nationwide building society had suffered the theft of a laptop which contained customer account information. The Financial Services Authority is currently investigating. [14 Nov 2006]
Leader: Of course passport security is too weak
Leader Botnets, distributed denial of service attacks, mass mailers, spyware, Trojans - these are all regular security threats. The other thing they all have in common is that none of them was around 10 years ago. [04 Aug 2006]
Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime
Comment Criminals care little for where their botnets are located, as long as they are connected to a broadband connection which can be abused. This isn't to say that compromised PCs - or botnets - are solely a US problem, far from it. [09 May 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment The botnets are used by their owners to defraud internet advertisers, as in Ancheta's case. Now botnets and phishing dominate malware. He sees botnets as a major problem that cannot be easily fixed because the hijacked machines are mostly home PCs... [12 Apr 2006]
Leader: ISPs must be forced to stop spam
Leader By ordering ISPs to monitor and act on open relays and botnets, a huge chunk of compromised machines used to relay spam will be taken out of commission. Australia's announcement that it is to get tough on internet service providers (ISPs) by... [30 Mar 2006]
Opinion: So why can't Microsoft build in security?
Comment In my own experience, Microsoft wants to be able to deliver the best possible security to the weakest link in its business - the millions upon millions of consumers who are unwittingly breeding tens of thousands of botnets and other nasties that... [12 Oct 2005]
Peter Cochrane's Uncommon Sense: The ever-evolving virus
Comment Of course, such a wonderful technology has been picked up by spammers, who recruit botnets to send bulk email and create even more misery for millions of internet users. The fight against viruses, worms, Trojan horses and other digital pests may... [20 May 2004]
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