Microsoft didn't crush Storm, counter researchers
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| Microsoft didn't crush the Storm botnet as it has claimed, rival security
| researchers argued today. Instead, the criminals responsible for the army of
| compromised computers diversified last year to avoid attention and expand
| their business.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1796887637&rid=-50
Microsoft recently showed some more dishonesty when it claimed that the OOXML
vote in Norway was fair (bald-faced lie, as later proven). It also tries to
lie about this one:
iFrame attacks surge, security firm says
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| SQL injection attacks on Microsoft Internet Information Servers are leaving
| Web pages with malicious iFrames in them
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1401806166&rid=-50
Microsoft rebutted in a 'blog item'...
Days ago:
Microsoft warns of web server flaw
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| The company has issued an advisory on the vulnerability, which affects
| Windows XP Professional SP2, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows
| Server 2008.
|
| [...]
|
| "The web server is widely used on the internet, and is a top pick by
| web-hosting providers. We might see web-hosting providers targeted, and their
| clients' websites breached."
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2214722/microsoft-warns-web-server
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
New Massive Botnet Twice the Size of Storm
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| Damballa predicts that even now that Kraken has been outed, it will continue
| growing at least in the near-term -- up to at least 600,000 new bots by
| mid-April. Its bots are prolific, too: The firm has seen single Kraken bots
| sending out up to 500,000 pieces of spam in a day.
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http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=150292&WT.svl=news1_1
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