New spam: Your bank has failed, download this Trojan
Spam that tells victims their bank has failed urges them to on a link that will tell if their accounts are insured but that really tries to trick them into downloading a Trojan that will turn their machine into a bot.
Botnet production eerily like commercial code practice
Botnets are elaborate command-and-control systems used by criminals for sending spam, stealing personal information or launching denial-of-service attacks through hijacked computers. But their underlying malware code structures share common ways to evade detection, and even mimic some commercial code practices, such as digital methods to prevent copying and reverse engineering, says one researcher.
Click Forensics: Bahama botnet stealing traffic from Google
The Bahama botnet, a sophisticated network of compromised computers that is wreaking click-fraud havoc among advertisers, is also snatching away Web traffic and revenue right from under the nose of mighty Google, Click Forensics said Thursday.
The first Linux botnet?
Has Linux security been breached? Are Linux systems in danger of being transformed into botnet zombies the way millions of Windows PCs have been? In a word: "Nah."
What is a Botnet anyway?
Sometimes, those of us in the computer biz get so wrapped up in the techie details that we forget that many people don't know what we think are the basics. For example, a really smart, computer-savvy friend of mine recently asked me, "What is a botnet anyway?" Whoops! Clearly, it's time for me to do some explaining.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News
Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
- mburton325
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