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A quarter of US PCs infected with malware: OECD
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| An OECD study into online crime says that increased activity by cyber
| criminals has left an estimated one-in-four US computers infected with
| malware.
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/security/a-quarter-of-us-pcs-infected-with-malware/2008/06/02/1212258708582.html
And some people run their business on this thing? It's almost like begging for
espionage.
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
100 e-mail bouncebacks? You've been backscattered.
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| The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every
| hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails, Vygara nad
| Levytar," "UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you."
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| You eye your computer screen; you're nervous. What's going on ? Have you been
| hacked? Are you some kind of zombie botnet spammer?
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1698505531&rid=-50
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