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Stopping 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]
The Weekly Round-Up: 18.01.08
Round-Up Now, most of the Round-Up's notifications are to do with challenges to reveal its inner chav, posts to its multimedia ultra-wall and invitations to become a zombie. A reasonably tech-savvy friend of the Round-Up this week managed to send a... [18 Jan 2008]
Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets
News The zombie army can be controlled remotely with the botnet creators usually trying to build the largest possible botnet of compromised computers to rent out to gangs for as little as $100 for a couple of hours. [28 Sep 2007]
Windows has fewest security holes
News The latest Symantec threat report, which covers the six-month period from 1 July to 31 December 2006, also reveals the number of 'zombie' PCs hijacked by hackers and used to launch denial of service attacks or send out spam has risen by almost 30... [23 Mar 2007]
Word up! Explore the lexicon of tech
News T to Z: Tag cloud to Zombie T to Z: Tag cloud to Zombie T to Z: Tag cloud to Zombie T to Z: Tag cloud to Zombie Next page: T to Z: Tag cloud to Zombie T to Z: Tag cloud to Zombie Zombie - An internet-connected PC that is being remotely controlled... [24 Nov 2006]
US man charged over Akamai DDoS attack
News He then used this botnet of hijacked computers to send a massive amount of traffic to the DNS servers of the Global Traffic Management division of Akamai, prosecutors alleged. A Florida man has been charged with launching a distributed denial of... [25 Oct 2006]
Sex spammers squashed by FTC
News It also said Kinion paid others to send unsolicited email messages and sent spam via so-called "zombie" computers without the knowledge of the PC owners. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has shut down four illegal internet spam operations... [15 Sep 2006]
Taiwan fingered as spam hub
News The data was gathered using CipherTrust's network of fake "zombie" computers, among other sources, the company said. Spammers typically use networks of zombies, or compromised PCs used without their owners' knowledge, to send out their junk messages. [12 Jun 2006]
Microsoft virus 'bounty hunter' warns of never-ending battle
News A botnet - a network of zombie PCs - can then be used to send spam or launch a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a target organisation. One of the biggest security threats today are the armies of 'zombie' PCs that have been... [01 Mar 2006]
Shut down Sober-infected PCs, ISPs urged
News Computers infected by Sober are likely to contain spyware, or could have been turned into zombie PCs and used to send spam or launch denial of service attacks. ISPs were urged on Monday to check their user traffic patterns to locate and shut down... [10 Jan 2006]
Zombie armies are shrinking, says security guru
News A botnet is comprised of thousands of computers that have been surreptitiously transformed into zombie PCs without their owners' knowledge. The move to pint-size botnets helps malicious attackers have more success in delaying detection of their... [17 Nov 2005]
Zombies: Oz takes the fight to ISPs
News These so-called zombie computers have been compromised by hackers, a computer virus, or a Trojan horse, and perform malicious tasks of one sort or another, under the direction of the hacker. Many owners of zombie computers are unaware that their... [08 Nov 2005]
Huge ID theft ring affects at least 50 banks
News The data theft was initially reported to be carried out by a modified variant of a spyware application, called CoolWebSearch (CWS) but Sunbelt has now found that the activities are carried out by a mail zombie and a separate Trojan, which is... [09 Aug 2005]
Virus warning: Bite the Bagle and become a zombie
News Carrera said, for example: "Compromised PCs could be used to send out new variants of Bagle. A new version of the Bagle virus is attempting to turn PCs into zombies for use in cyber attack networks. The variant surfaced over the weekend and was... [29 Jun 2005]
Europe home to majority of zombies
News Zombie computers are typically infected with viruses and used to send spam and perform denial of service attacks. Europe was home to more hacker-controlled (zombie) computers in May than anywhere else in the world, according to vendor research. [31 May 2005]
