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Nov
2009
How a Botnet Gets Its Name

2 hours ago by ITworld staff

There is a new kid in town in the world of botnets - isn't there always? A heavyweight spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August, but is already responsible for approximately 5 percent of all global spam (around 2.5 billion spam e ...

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Bookmarks for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009

2 hours ago by Scott Kingery

Sites that I found interesting for November 3rd 2009 through November 10th 2009: Computer Security Company Takes Out Enormous Botnet – Security firm FireEye has reportedly struck a massive blow against spam. The so called “Mega-D” or “Ozdok” spam botnet was effectively dismantled by these intrepid s ...

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10
Nov
2009
Security firm chokes sprawling spam botnet

6 hours ago by admin

A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world’s spam has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye. After carefully analyzing the machinations of the massive botnet, alternately known as Mega-D and Ozdok, the FireEye employees last week ...

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New Koobface Component Imitates Facebook User

13 hours ago by Jonell Baltazar Advanced Threats Researcher

The Koobface botnet has pushed out a new component that automates the following routines: Registering a Facebook account Confirming an email address in Gmail to activate the registered Facebook account Joining random Facebook groups Adding Facebook friends Posting messages to Facebook friends’ walls ...

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Gaming Botnet Bleeds Over To The Enterprise

14 hours ago by Guest Posts

Guest editorial by Gunter Ollmann Botnets come in all shapes and sizes and if you can’t find one that fits your unique purposes off-the-rack, it’s trivial to create a custom one using a do-it-yourself construction kit – which helps to explain the diversity we’re seeing within the enterprise. In gene ...

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Facebook, MySpace users hit by cyber attacks

23 hours ago by DISC

Image by sitmonkeysupreme via Flickr NZ HERALD reported that Facebook users - already being targeted in a malware campaign - are now under threat from a phishing scam. Security specialists Symantec... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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Facebook, MySpace users hit by cyber attacks

23 hours ago by DISC

Image by sitmonkeysupreme via Flickr NZ HERALD reported that Facebook users - already being targeted in a malware campaign - are now under threat from a phishing scam. Security specialists Symantec... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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09
Nov
2009
How Did My Computer Get a Spyware Infection?

1 day ago by Dale Powell

In my role as a computer grief counselor, I hear customer after customer cry out “How did I get infected, I’ve got “that antivirus program from the yellow box?”. While I’m not going to make this article into a smear campaign about how I don’t like that antivirus program in the yellow box…or the red ...

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Global Cyber News Bits, November 9, 2009 from CommunityDNS

1 day ago by CommunityDNS

Provided by CommunityDNS, the information in this post consists of news items in the security-based Internet community. Bot herders hide master control channel in Google cloud Google’s “AppEngine” application was used by cybercriminals to act as the master control channel, feeding commands to large ...

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Malicious Google AppEngine Used to Control Botnet

1 day ago by Ryan Naraine

Arbor Networks researcher Jose Nazario has spotted a malicious Google AppEngine application being used as to control a botnet of infected computers. The Google App Engine is feeding URLs to the zombies (hijacked machines) for them to download, Nazario explained. Read the full blog post [arbotnetwork ...

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