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RSS email botnetsStopping Zombies, Botnets, and Other Email-borne Threats
White Paper This paper discusses how the threat has evolved, explains how zombie networks, or botnets, are created and highlights how even organizations with reliable gateway and endpoint protection are vulnerable. [08 Apr 2008]
BT busts zombies and spammers
News The Content Forensics system, which was developed by StreamShield Networks, is designed to combat professional spammers as well as botnets - rogue software that infects computers and transforms them into spam-generating networks. [12 Oct 2006]
Zombie armies are shrinking, says security guru
News Botnets are used to send out email messages for spam and phishing attacks. The move to pint-size botnets helps malicious attackers have more success in delaying detection of their illicit zombie networks, Sunner said. [17 Nov 2005]
Does your PC help send 70 per cent of spam?
News And according to anti-spam experts, Florida-based spammers are booking air time on Russian owned botnets to send their junk mail. Linford said that every week more than 100,000 PCs are recruited into botnets without the owner's knowledge. [23 Sep 2004]
Malware: From bedroom to boardroom
Comment Botnets gave them the anonymity they required and the increasing penetration of always-on home broadband networks made them very effective and often undetected by the infected host. The botnets grew too quickly, were difficult for them to control... [19 Nov 2007]
Spam storm needs ISP action, urges security chief
News The session, which follows the submission of a written response, coincides with claims the number of compromised PCs - known as botnets - in the UK has tripled over the past year. Speaking about the growing problem of botnets and the deluge of spam... [14 Mar 2007]
Re:Viewing 2004: The security threats
News MyDoom and Bagle both appeared bent on creating botnets while the all-conquering Netsky appeared a throw-back to the days of mischief - apparently the work of a German teenager who found himself in the middle of a virus-writing war before getting... [15 Dec 2004]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment There are even wholesalers of botnets. Botnets, that's what. We need the same for botnets and spam. Sure enough, bit-by-bit, my email efficiency has been eroded year-on-year by the growing spam menace. [19 Feb 2007]
How the good guys fight the security arms race
News B is for Botnets Those threats from things like botnets that once might have been a silly academic exercise have become a real issue. B is for Botnets A content-based approach looks at the data and recognises how it can be adequately protected... [15 Feb 2008]
Re:Viewing 2005: The year in security
News Botnets have reportedly decreased in size over 2005 but it's not much of a victory when it was largely in the criminals' best and stealthiest interests. And an interesting side-effect of more targeted attacks has been the diminished need for vast... [19 Dec 2005]
Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning
News B is for Botnets An outbreak of pump-and-dump email spam this week is using bandwidth-sapping MP3 voice file attachments to promote certain stocks. Email security company Email Systems said it detected a global outbreak of MP3 spam from late... [19 Oct 2007]
Lycos email scam hides nasty Trojan
News Networks of these compromised machines - or botnets - are rented out to spammers by the gangs who control them. A malicious email purporting to offer a link to download Lycos' controversial spam busting screensaver is infecting users with a Trojan... [08 Dec 2004]
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. In principal every email is scanned and any viral infection is dealt with... [20 May 2004]
Online casinos 'failing customers'
News B is for Botnets Out of the 100 UK online gambling sites contacted by customer services company Talisma, only 60 per cent replied to email enquiries and 16 per cent of calls went unanswered. Four-fifths of websites had separate systems supporting... [27 Nov 2006]
Google launches online security tools
News B is for Botnets The tech works with any email system, including Lotus Notes, Microsoft Exchange and Novell Groupwise. Google has launched a range of web-based security applications for email filtering, encryption and archiving. [05 Feb 2008]
