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RSS zombie5 Steps Every Business Can Take to Guard Against Botnets
White Paper Robot networks and zombie armies may sound like names from science fiction. Unfortunately, they identify actual threats to information systems across the globe. By secretly invading business Internet connections, hackers... [13 Nov 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.07.09
Round-Up The government, of course, hasn't actually given up on the scheme and like a particularly persistent zombie it is likely to rise again at some point. And, this year, they were joined by 407 BBC staff. [03 Jul 2009]
Ghost Turns Zombie: Exploring the Life Cycle of Web-Based Malware
White Paper While the web provides information and services that enrich their lives in many ways, it has also become the primary vehicle for delivering malware. Once infected with web-based malware, an unsuspecting user's machine is converted into a... [20 Jun 2009]
Mid-Year Global Threat Report
White Paper It also says about detection denotes a specific variant of a large family of bots, malware used to gain control of a victim's PC in order to recruit it as a component of a botnet, a virtual network of compromised machines (also called... [20 Jun 2009]
Zombie attacks on sale for a fiver
News Researchers at security firm Finjan said on Wednesday that they have uncovered an underground botnet-leasing network where cyber criminals can pay $5 to $100 to install malware on 1,000 PCs for things like stealing data and sending spam. [18 Jun 2009]
Stopping Zombies, Botnets and Other Email-And Web-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 to these email-... [11 Jun 2009]
Facebook payments: Virtually here?
News It's probably not a coincidence that those apps - from poker games to virtual pets to the seemingly endless parade of Mafia Wars and Zombie Wars applications - are the ones that would benefit the most from a virtual... [26 May 2009]
Cyber crime heads to the cloud
News Cloud computing crimeware means networks of zombie machines can be hired to steal online banking details for as little as $299 per month. Fraud-as-a-service is opening up computer crime to people with no technical... [31 Oct 2008]
The Extraordinary Failure of Anti-Virus Technology
White Paper Virus-infected computers become an exploitable resource for hackers, who assemble and control networks of thousands of "zombie" computers, which are used to mount "denial of service" attacks, distribute huge volumes of... [11 Apr 2008]
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]
Pump-and-dump MP3 email spam warning
News David Vella, product manager for GFI Software, told silicon.com: "We think it is running through zombie botnet hijacked PCs which are sending this type of new spam. The MP3 attachments, which range from around 85KB to... [19 Oct 2007]
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]
TechNet Webcast: Network Forensics: Identifying Attack Signatures (Level 200)
White Paper The presenter of this webcast begins by displaying numerous trace files indicating network reconnaissance is underway on a network (operating system fingerprinting, IP scans, zombie-based scans, blind UDP scans,... [31 Aug 2007]
In brief: Top wi-fi, zombie attack, paradise lost, malware costs
News The move is an attempt to crack down on the number of zombie PCs at large in the world as such compromised machines - known en masse as botnets - are the major source of rogue and malicious email and the US is the worst... [15 Jun 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... [23 Mar 2007]
