Who's Stealing Your Passwords? Global Hackers Create a New Online Crime Economy
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| A sophisticated new breed of online criminals is making it easier than ever
| for the bad guys to engage in identity theft and other cybercrime.
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| Like all exploits, Berbew was eventually detected and contained, but, as is
| customary with malware, strands of Berbew’s form-grabbing code were stitched
| into new Trojans that had adapted to defenses. The process is not unlike
| horticulturalists’ grafting pieces of one plant onto another in order to
| create hardier mums.
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http://www.cio.com/article/135500/
3-part series which is shocking. It shows the security chaos that Toy O/Ses
have brought upon the world.
Related:
The end of Windows, or a security expert gives up
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| And then go and warn others to do the same. Windows is defeated - its days
| are over. It carries the worm inside. So whatever will happen next: RIP,
| Windows.
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http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=456
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
Gathering 'Storm' Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets
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| Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a
| Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's also the most successful
| example we have of a new breed of worm, and I've seen estimates that between
| 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide.
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/10/securitymatters_1004
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