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InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch? |
InternetNews June 29, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets. |
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Botnets Bouncing Back Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning - and may be stronger than ever. |
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again. |
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Downadup: The Web's Next Big Threat? Experts blame a lack of patching and an advanced design for the rise of a worm that could outpace Storm. |
InternetNews January 15, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number. |
InternetNews December 12, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Web 2.0 and Cloud Tech: A Spammers' Paradise? With the proliferation of the cloud, spammers will find it becoming ever easier to ply their trade. |
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist. |
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well. |
InternetNews November 12, 2008 Christopher Saunders |
Media Spotlight Scatters a Botnet Host ISPs spring into action after a mainstream publication fingers a U.S. Web hosting company for its role in the global spam and malware epidemic. |
InternetNews January 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Move Over Storm, There's a New Botnet in Town Nugache, a once-minor botnet, gets an extreme makeover and may be rivaling Storm in terms of size and scale of nuisance. |
InternetNews May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs. |
InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings. |
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
YouTube's Not so Friendly Spam Bringing new meaning to the term "viral video," spammers are trying to sucker people by pretending to be legitimate YouTube messages. |
InternetNews January 9, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Leverage Battle in Gaza, CNN Bad guys spreading Trojans are becoming even more sophisticated in their attacks. |
InternetNews January 6, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Help Push Google to Dubious Milestone Google makes top 10 list for spam abuses. |
InternetNews February 25, 2010 |
Microsoft Scores Win Against Waledac Botnet Microsoft obtains temporary injunction ordering shut down of 277 Internet domains suspected of orchestrating massive "Waledac" botnet, one of the nation's 10 largest. |
InternetNews August 23, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Storm Worm Gathers Strength on The Internet The Storm worm virus is still around, still causing trouble and stronger than ever six months later. |
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead. |
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication. |
InternetNews June 22, 2010 |
Botnet Still King of Malware Underworld Latest report from Gartner finds that while more sophisticated malware and phishing scams will proliferate, botnets will still be the top challenge for security experts for the foreseeable future. |
InternetNews October 24, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
The 'Storm' That Keeps Blowing The Storm worm seems to unleash one new e-mail flood or denial of service attack every week. Why won't it go away? |
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston |
What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight. |
InternetNews December 16, 2008 Sean Michael Kerner |
'Shockers' in Cisco's Year-End Security Report But it's what didn't make it into the report that could be even more revealing. |
InternetNews November 26, 2008 Stuart J. Johnston |
Microsoft Named in Top 5 Spam-Friendly Hosts Non-profit that tracks global spam says the software giant's Live services let spammers run wild. |
InternetNews January 6, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Fake Celeb Profiles in Spam Attacks Want to see "more" of your favorite actor or pop star? Bad idea. |
PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin |
The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers. |
InternetNews February 11, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Hijack Facebook Group of 1.5 Million Facebook site is taken over by get-rich-quick and other familiar spam. |
InternetNews January 19, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Get Ready for Inauguration Spam As Obama prepares to be sworn in, hackers and spammers are gearing up for a field day. |
InternetNews March 27, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Conficker Countdown: Experts Stress Caution Malware code has infected millions of PCs and will activate on April 1. What do security insiders say users need to know? |
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks? |
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 Robert Lemos |
Gangland Web Attacks How not to get whacked by the botnet mafia. |
PC Magazine August 20, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel |
There's a Bot in Your PC Aiding the rise of blended threats around the world, botnets are digging in and using your network as a base of operations. |
InternetNews March 18, 2011 |
Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week. |
InternetNews July 1, 2009 David Needle |
Google Spouts Scary Spam Stats Google digs deep to uncover the latest spam trends. |
InternetNews September 9, 2009 |
IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour. |
InternetNews November 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Latch on to Obama Victory President-elect Barack Obama's campaign leveraged social networking all the way to victory in last night's election. But Obama's online presence has attracted some problems, too. |
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain. |
InternetNews February 2, 2010 |
Spammers Pedaling Haiti, World Cup Scams Latest analysis finds spike in malware hidden in messages about major world news events. |
InternetNews July 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio |
Trend Micro Readies Security SaaS Antivirus developer Trend Micro said it's ready to take on some big names with its new SecureCloud Software-as-a-Service security platform for businesses. |
InternetNews September 30, 2010 |
'Here You Have' Worm Takes Toll In September The new version of an old malware trick was the single largest security threat to enterprise IT departments last month. |
Bank Technology News December 2010 Michael Sisk |
Endgame Systems Finds Botnets in the Cloud Security software provider Endgame Systems raised $29 million in the fall and simultaneously launched ipTrust, a product meant to detect and manage the harm caused by malware and botnets in cloud computing environments |
InternetNews November 20, 2009 |
Symantec's 'Unlucky 13' Security Trends for 2010 Hackers and malware purveyors are becoming more sophisticated, meaning computer users need to become wiser and more proactive, too. |
InternetNews February 2, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Are Legitimate Sites the Next Malware Threat? Businesses may be exposing their customers to malware by leaving their sites unpatched, IBM warns in a new study. |
InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark |
AOL: Spam Down, Sophisticated Methods Up 'Spam mafia gangs' continue to mislead and deceive e-mail users. |
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari |
Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot |
Inc. June 2007 Michael Fitzgerald |
The Best Spam Fighters Six ways to protect your E-mail. |
InternetNews June 18, 2010 |
Microsoft Suing Hotmail Spammers Software giant goes to court to take down the orchestrators of what it describes as the "largest ever" spam attacks on its Windows Live Hotmail service. |
InternetNews November 30, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner |
Google Wants Your Help to Fight Malware Google wants to turn the tables on malware and wants you to report malware to Google when you find it. |
PC Magazine February 1, 2008 Sarah Pike |
What's in Your Inbox The inside scoop on how much e-mail in your inbox is or isn't spam. |