Bot Network
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'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says
News Attackers built a "bot net" of unknowing home PCs to bring down Google and other sites, the company says.
Battle of the bots
Insight You can't see and hear them, and really, there is nothing there to tell you if you have them on your system. But be warned: insidious bots that could threaten your businesses are upon us.
Should we worry about bot escalation?
Insight comment If there is one eye-catching trend in Symantec's latest half-yearly Internet security threat report, it is that bots are upon us.
Tags: Security
Finjan finds botnet of 1.9M infected computers
News Huge botnet hosted in the Ukraine is being used to send spam, record keystrokes, and copy files of infected computers running Windows XP, researchers say.
Tags: Viruses and worms, Spam and phishing, Finjan Software Inc., Bot, bot network, Ukraine, computer, RSA Security Inc., director of marketing, chief technology officer
Pop-up program reads keystrokes, steals passwords
News Trojan horse installed through pop-up ad has watch list of banking sites. Victims visit sites, type in passwords, hand info to hackers.
Tags: Hacking, Spam and phishing, Banking
Zombie builders send out phone texts
News Hackers are trying a cell phone approach to try to dupe people into downloading a Trojan horse program.
Tags: Cellular phones, Mobile/Wireless, Data security, Hacking, Viruses and worms
Storm worm anniversary brings fresh variants
News A year after the first Storm worm attack, security companies have warned of more variants being sent out in spam.
Tags: Security
Viruses keep on growing
News The volume of worms and viruses is increasing, but the rate of successful attacks has dropped, according to Symantec.
Tags: Viruses and worms
What's the next security threat?
News Gone are the days of simple worms and viruses. Now botnets and phishing dominate malicious software--and new twists are on the way.
Tags: PC security, Data security, Security Management, Security applications/tools, Security implementation/standards
Al-Jazeera Web site suffers hits
News The Web sites of Al-Jazeera have been taken offline, in what has been confirmed by the Arab media organization as a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the company’s Domain Name Servers (DNS).
