Online casinos hit by bot armies
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| However, the use of botnets is more problematic, due to the fact that until
| recently botmasters had not been targeted by the FBI, and the actual
| computers involved belong to innocent third parties.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/09/online_money_laundering/
Anti-fraud site turfed offline after Joe Job attack
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| The spam emails, which were badly worded and full of grammatical errors, were
| coming from zombie machines - none of which were on Fasthost's domain."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/15/bobbear_joe_job/
Not sure if this is the one [H]omer mentioned the other day, but just in case:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.commerceonline.com
US Commerce Bank says hacking damage was limited
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| Commerce Bank, which operates banks in five U.S. states, said that a hacker
| gained access to a database with about 3,000 customer records and accessed
| data belonging to 20 of them. The bank is contacting those who may have been
| affected.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1079330300&rid=-50
Why, oh, why Windows?
Related:
Study: Billions of dollars spent on security
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| Large U.S. businesses will spend $61 billion on security by the end
| of this year, representing 7.3 percent of total IT budgets in the
| country, according to a new report from Info-Tech Research Group.
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http://news.com.com/2110-7350_3-6135989.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Finally, anti “bot” technology is launched, and it’s from Norton
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| Now that a specific anti “bot” program has been released, from Symantec no
| less, the threat from bots, botnets and zombified computers are hitting the
| news more often, and is finally entering the mainstream users in a big way.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13585&Itemid=1105
Symantec Software Battles Vicious New PC Enemies: 'Bots'
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| "We are seeing rapid increase in botnet infections," says Ed Kim, director
| of product management in the consumer division at Symantec.
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http://www.thestreet.com/_yahoo/newsanalysis/itmanagement/10368181.html?cm_ven=YAHOO&&cm_cat=FREE&&cm_ite=NA
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/
FBI to Notify Microsoft Windows Users Who Were Victims of Botnets
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| The Department of Justice and FBI have announced the results of
| an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle
| “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber security
| awareness of botnets.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10550/fbi-notify-microsoft-windows-users-who-were-victims-botnets
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