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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 278 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: most spam botnets comments Discuss  
Diary of the DeadSix botnets are responsible for 85 per cent of all spam, according to an analysis by net security firm Marshal.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 237 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: top botnets control m hijacked computers comments Discuss  
Storm is a shadow of its former self, Kraken is just another name for Bobax, and the biggest botnet goes by the mouthful of "Srizbi," a noted botnet researcher said Wednesday as he released the results of his census of the various armies of hacked computers that spew spam. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 231 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn fbi cyber crime chief botnets web terror social network threat comments Discuss  
http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39188638,00.htmBy Nick Heathsilicon.com15 April 2008Q&A: Scott O'Neal, computer intrusion head, FBI cyber divisionScott O'Neal oversees the FBI's response to computer hacking and botnet attacks by criminals, terrorists and foreign powers.The cyber division is one of the faster growing operational departments within the FBI. The growth of international cyber crime and terrorism over the past five years has spurred the FBI to establish dedicated cyber s read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 160 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: antispam group outlines ways block spam botnets comments Discuss  
A major antispam organization is pushing a set of new best practices for ISPs (Internet service providers) to stop increasing volumes of spam from botnets. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 147 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: botnets winning spam wars comments Discuss  
The world's anti-spam systems are fighting a furious but hopeless battle against botnet spam, a new threat analysis from Commtouch has claimed. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 48 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn cellphone botnets blackmailing voip healthy cybercrime economy comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:08:49 -0500 (CDT)http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=166029By Kelly Jackson HigginsSenior EditorDark ReadingOCTOBER 15, 2008Cellphones will become members of botnets. VOIP systems will get hit by blackmailing denial-of-service attacks. The cybercrime economy will thrive, even as the global economy struggles.And today, around 15 percent of all computers online are infected as bots, up from 10 percent last year, according to the read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 39 days ago
Via: http://feeds.ziffdavisenterprise.com | Tags: click fraud increasingly driven botnets comments Discuss  
The role of botnets in click fraud is on the upswing, according to a report by Click Forensics. The percentage of click fraud traffic driven by botnets has increased to more than 27 percent of all click fraud traffic, surpassing its reported all-time high of 25 percent, set the previous quarter. - Click fraud may have dipped slightly of late, but botnets continue tobe a driving force behind the activity. According to Click Forensics, traffic from botnets accounted for 27.6percent of all click fraud tra read more »
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