Hydra-headed 'Storm' attack starts
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| "Every Storm-infected system is potentially capable of hosting the
| malware and sending the spam, but only a few will be used in any
| given run," said the alert, "depending on how many e-mails they want
| sent and how many Web hits they're expecting."
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1599221103&rid=-50
Rutkowska faces ‘100% undetectable malware’ challenge
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| At last year’s Black Hat security conference, stealth malware researcher
| Joanna Rutkowska caused a stir with the introduction of Blue Pill, a
| new technology she claims can create malware that remains “100
| percent undetectable.”
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=334
All of this leads to Web pollution and elevated prices, at least to those who
do not rely on Windows. If your parents use Windows, your inheritance in in
jeopardy, too.
Related:
Hotmail still riddled with spam
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| Microsoft has admitted that up to 98 per cent of messages sent to
| Hotmail addresses are spam.
|
| [...]
|
| The findings will disappoint Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who
| predicted at the 2004 Davos World Economic Forum that spam would
| be "eliminated" within two years.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2188226/hotmail-riddled-spam-admits
Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
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| "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
| botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
| of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
| harness more than a million computers around the world and use
| them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
| change."
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
http://tinyurl.com/39zfap
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/
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