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  • The botnet business

    Posted June 1, 2010 - 8:00 am

    Cybercrime is big business... and you might be in it without knowing.

  • Big botnets and how to stop them

    Posted June 1, 2010 - 8:00 am

    Here are the worst of the botnets, and ways you can try to stop them in their tracks.

  • Botnets: Reasons It's Getting Harder to Find and Fight Them

    Posted April 20, 2009 - 10:11 am

    Botnets have long used a variety of configurations, in part to disguise their control mechanisms. But as user-friendly but insecure applications continue to become available -- especially social networking programs -- hackers have an ever growing number of security holes to choose from. They're also getting smarter about building resilient architectures, according to botnet hunters who have monitored recent activity. Here are four reasons the botnet fight is getting harder, and what to do about it:

  • As phishing evolves, criminals switch to malware

    Posted December 18, 2008 - 5:41 pm

    As security researchers have gotten better at blocking many of the fraudulent e-mail messages that were being sent from botnets, phishing gangs have homed in on a new way to make a buck.

  • I can't believe he said that! -- The ITwhirled news quiz

    Posted December 5, 2008 - 12:29 pm

    Who is baffled by the BlackBerry Storm? Who thought running a botnet might be just a bit of fun? Who is feeling the hurt? Can you match the quote to the quoted? Go on, give it a whirl!

  • Spam is silenced, but where are the feds?

    Posted November 25, 2008 - 10:42 pm

    Two weeks after McColo was dropped by its network providers, the company's data center remains untouched. That frustrates some security researchers who say that the servers used to control these operations could provide a treasure trove of evidence about cybercriminals.

  • Anatomy of a Spam Virus

    Posted October 13, 2008 - 6:47 am

    A botnet created by a trojan virus is sometimes referred to as SpamThru. According to the Don’t Bounce Spam organization, spammers have become very sophisticated in the way they manage their botnets , and the SpamThru Trojan is the leading example. In at least one case the botnet consisted of over 73,000 computers.
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