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[News] Windows Zombie Armies Fight One Another

Botnets Battle Over Turf

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| Patching their bots and shutting out other botnets is no harder 
| than initially recruiting a machine as a bot, security experts say.
| "It would be trivial for a bot to compromise a machine and apply
| Microsoft's recommended workarounds to prevent re-infection," says
| David Maynor, CTO of Errata Security.
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=122116&WT.svl=news1_1

The joys of Windows. Who owns you today?


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Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/


Zombies infiltrate US military networks

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| Support Intelligence, the firm whose research on honeynets revealed that 
| the networks of at least 28 Fortune 1000 companies contained 
| malware-infected spam-spewing PCs, has found evidence of bots running 
| behind military networks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/04/16/military_botnet/


The feds weigh in on Windows security

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| "The benefits of this move are enormous: Common, secure configurations
| can help slow botnet spreading, can radically reduce delays in patching,
| can stop many attacks directly, and organizations that have made the
| move report that it actually saves money rather than costs money,"
| Paller wrote.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6172158.html

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