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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... [15 Aug 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. Parrella spends a lot of time prosecuting counterfeit software cases, as well as trade secret... [13 Jul 2009]
Cisco SAFE: A Security Reference Architecture
White Paper Today's new threats share several characteristics which includes increasing botnet sophistication and effectiveness, increasingly malicious spyware, web application security exploits, etc. At the same time, organizations... [01 Jul 2009]
BotMiner: Clustering Analysis of Network Traffic for Protocol- and Structure-Independent Botnet Detection
White Paper Most of the current botnet detection approaches work only on specific botnet Command and Control (C&C) protocols (e.g. This paper presents a general detection framework that is independent of... [30 Jun 2009]
Web Threats: 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... [30 Jun 2009]
Photos: Waging war on the web's bad guys
Photo The centre also has a regularly updated list of the IP addresses of the servers that command botnets, allowing it to spot attempts to connect to systems by botnet command servers. The centres protect and monitor more... [21 Jul 2008]
Botnet Threats and Solutions: Phishing
White Paper This white paper examines the existence of and interactions within the botnet ecosystem that enables phishing - a fraudulent type of spam - and the ensuing damage. As a result of phishing via botnets, businesses and... [29 Mar 2008]
Teen gets five years for DDoS attacks
News He then organised them into a botnet, and targeted two companies that sold sports clothing online. Jasmine Singh, who was sentenced last week, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of computer... [18 Aug 2005]
Virus warning: Bagle variant has alarming attack strategy
News The final part of the triumvirate is a second Trojan, called Win32.Mitglieder, which disables firewalls and antivirus software, further lowering the shields, and then hijacks the infected PC for use as part of a botnet. [03 Jun 2005]
Re:Viewing 2004: The security threats
News A botnet is the end product of spam, virus and Trojan activity. The creation of a botnet can prove a great money spinner, with capacity being rented out for around $10 per hour, according to MessageLabs. [15 Dec 2004]
