Researchers 'Poison' Storm Botnet
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| A group of German researchers has unveiled the first publicly released
| research attempting to actively disrupt a peer-to-peer botnet - using as
| their case study the notorious Storm worm.
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| [...]
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| The bots were located in more than 200 countries, with the biggest proportion
| in the U.S., at 23 percent.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,145171-pg,1/article.html
A waste of productivity value.
Last week:
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.
|
| [...]
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| "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
Schneier: Lots of Security Software Is 'snake Oil'
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| IDG News Service: So what do you think is the biggest threat right now?
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| Schneier: Crime.
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| IDG News Service: So how do you fix it? It's expensive to investigate, it's
| cross-jurisdictional.
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| Schneier: It might not be fixable. A lot of [the solution] is going to be
| making the things that criminals are going after harder to get. You're not
| going to stop the criminals.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144938/schneier_lots_of_security_software_is_snake_oil.html
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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