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IE8 unleashed as Microsoft plays Firefox catch-up
News Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals Also, IE 8 Beta 1 included Microsoft's own brand of malware protection. Earlier this year, Opera added Haute Secure malware protection, and Mozilla... [28 Aug 2008]
Blowing up hard drives, stinky broadband and super cars
Photo The modestly named Hero bot uses its spotlights and high resolution cameras to scan the underside of UK-bound lorries and coaches travelling through Calais - one of Europe's biggest ports. And the centre at Symantec's... [01 Aug 2008]
Scalability, Fidelity, and Containment in the Potemkin Virtual Honeyfarm
White Paper The rapid evolution of large-scale worms, viruses and bot-nets have made Internet malware a pressing concern. However, the most widely used tools for gathering intelligence on new... [11 Jul 2008]
The 'multi-component' malware threat
News In other words, the next security threat that hits your organisation could be a keylogger, Trojan and 'bot' rolled into one. Malware is becoming increasingly complex, designed with multiple components... [02 Jul 2008]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News The artificial intelligence of CyberLover's automated chats is good enough that victims have a tough time distinguishing the 'bot' from a real-life potential suitor, PC Tools said. PC Tools senior... [10 Dec 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment Network providers and ISPs can do a lot to isolate and render useless the bot generators - in short they can block their traffic at source or mid-stream. PC owners unknowingly supporting bot applications... [19 Feb 2007]
Spammers dust off their botnet passports
News Now it seems the bot-herders are turning to pastures new to greatly increase the breadth and the shelf-life of their networks amid fears some traditional targets are starting to address the problem with stronger... [26 Jul 2006]
Are virus writers the new entrepreneurs?
News Day said virus writers and those who stand to gain from the bot-nets and malware will be asking themselves questions about how they can move their business on by growing it, innovating and developing new... [17 Jul 2006]
IM worm installs rogue browser
News The link may also say "Goat_Ensem Bot" with a smiley. The company said in a statement: "This is the first recorded incidence of malware installing its own web browser on a PC. A new instant messaging... [23 May 2006]
US hacker gets five years in the slammer
News Others running bot networks may be based anywhere in the world, meaning that to truly crack this problem more international co-operation is required. A US man has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison after he... [09 May 2006]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment Bot networks - armies of these hijacked computers - have become the predominant feature of the internet threat landscape. Now botnets and phishing dominate malware. Hypponen has recently detected the... [12 Apr 2006]
Security in the spotlight
AS Analysis As such, the Agenda Setters panel voted to include organised criminals (17) on the list for the part they are believed to play in creating networks of 'bot-nets' - broadband-connected PCs infected with Trojan applications. [26 Sep 2005]
Spy worm spreads over instant messaging
News Spybot is one of the most prevalent worms on the internet, according to Bell, who said that a recent report from McAfee found that bot activity had increased more than 300 per cent between the first and second quarter of... [22 Jul 2005]
Latest Bagle fried by web wrong number
News Such "bot" software can be used by spammers and attackers to disrupt access to websites or collect personal financial information. Another version of the Bagle mass-mailing computer worm started spreading this week, but... [02 Sep 2004]
Phatbot is "the Swiss army knife of Trojans"
News Phatbot, also known as Agobot, is a powerful piece of malware that opens a back door on a computer and connects to its own peer-to-peer network of infected machines. A new iteration of a Trojan horse with an unusually... [18 Mar 2004]
