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InternetNews
January 24, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
'Botmaster' Pleads Guilty to Zombie Profits A 20-year-old Los Angeles man faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to federal charges he profited from an army of 400,000 zombie computers.   |
Bank Technology News
May 2006
Holly Sraeel |
If Financial Crime is Rising, Then Security is Job #1 Furthered along by a loosely knit network of criminals, cybercrime is being waged by hackers and botmasters for profit in ways that are often not easily tracked by financial institutions, law enforcement authorities and governments. |
InternetNews
August 29, 2006
Roy Mark |
Botnet Perp Hit With Three-Year Prison Term Adware scam results in damaged computers at Seattle hospital and U.S. military installations. |
InternetNews
July 19, 2004
Ryan Naraine |
'Deceptive Duo' Hacker Charged Robert Lyttle, who allegedly teamed up with 22-year-old Benjamin Stark and hacked into computer systems run by the Department of Defense and the National Aeronautic and Space Administration faces up to 10 years in prison. |
InternetNews
August 26, 2005
Roy Mark |
Feds Bust Spam Porn Operation A Phoenix federal grand injury has indicted three individuals for multiple violations of the CAN SPAM Act including sending unsolicited obscene materials, money laundering and criminal conspiracy. |
InternetNews
December 29, 2005
Roy Mark |
Oregon Man Cops Plea in eBay DDOS Attack A 21-year-old Oregon man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty this week for his role in launching a distributed denial of service attack on eBay in 2003. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2007
Ed Sutherland |
Former McAfee Exec. Facing Options Charges McAfee's former general counsel is facing a seven-count federal fraud indictment over stock option grants in 2000 and 2002. |
InternetNews
April 29, 2004
Roy Mark |
Feds Can Spammers Under New Act Federal authorities use Can Spam to raid prolific Michigan spam operation, which specialized in spoofing to hawk bogus diet patches. |
PC Magazine
May 31, 2006
Robert Lemos |
A Future Without Adware? Prosecutors and consumer advocates are on the attack against adware. Is a future without deceptive ad software attainable? |
InternetNews
November 15, 2006
Roy Mark |
New York Hits Internet Gambling Operation Law enforcement officials claim Web site was generating more than a $1 billion a year. |
InternetNews
July 22, 2004
Roy Mark |
E-Mail Operator Indicted for Record Data Theft Feds allege Florida man cracked company databases and downloaded almost 10 gigabytes of personal data. |
InternetNews
April 7, 2005
Roy Mark |
Federal E-Rate Indictments Grow Six companies and five individuals charged with wire fraud, collusion, aiding and abetting, and conspiracy. |
Wired
August 23, 2007
John Robb |
When Bots Attack If you want to bring down a country's information infrastructure and you don't want anyone to know who did it, the weapon of choice is a distributed denial of service attack. |
InternetNews
January 15, 2009
Richard Adhikari |
The Web's Latest Threat: Smarter 'Zombies' Hacker-controlled PCs are outwitting security software - and are growing in number. |
BusinessWeek
August 13, 2009
Joel Schectman |
Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it. |
InternetNews
March 30, 2004
Roy Mark |
AOL to Reward Spam Victims The ISP is expected to give 'valuable asset' seized from spammer to victim of e-mail scam. |
InternetNews
July 4, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Image-based Spam on the Rise Among the lead culprits in the spam overflow is a new take on an old technique called image-based spam. |
InternetNews
January 14, 2005
Roy Mark |
Big Spam Bust, Texas Style State files multi-million dollar lawsuit against two of the nation's largest e-mail operators. |
Insurance & Technology
January 22, 2010 |
2 Charged with $1.8M Healthcare Fraud A grand jury in San Antonio has returned an indictment charging a couple in connection with an alleged $1.8 million healthcare fraud scheme, officials said. |
CFO
Joseph McCafferty |
Laundry Time Prosecutors are applying money laundering laws to the recent crop of financial scandals. |
InternetNews
January 18, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Did Christmas PCs Scare Spam? There was a 30 percent reduction in spam around the first week of January. The reason could be either a major botnet going offline or possibly new Christmas computers replacing older ones that were unknowingly infected. |
InternetNews
August 4, 2005
Roy Mark |
Camcording Warez Dealer Bagged by Feds The Department of Justice announces its first arrests under a new law prohibiting recording movies in a theater. |
Wired
November 2006
Scott Berinato |
Attack of the Bots The latest threat to the Net: autonomous software programs that combine forces to perpetrate mayhem, fraud, and espionage on a global scale. How one company fought the new Internet mafia - and lost. |
InternetNews
December 23, 2004
Jim Wagner |
Cyber Criminals Prove Elusive Law enforcement efforts to snare virus writers are improving, but the most destructive ones have evaded capture. |
InternetNews
March 17, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead. |
PC Magazine
August 1, 2007
Eileen Travers |
The Botnet Mafia The online underworld is buying and selling control of your computer, but law enforcement is fighting back. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2008
Christopher Saunders |
Media Spotlight Scatters a Botnet Host ISPs spring into action after a mainstream publication fingers a U.S. Web hosting company for its role in the global spam and malware epidemic. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2004
Colin C. Haley |
ISP Gets Tough With 'Zombie' Customers Comcast pushes its broadband customers with virus-infested spam zombies to clean up their act -- or else. |
PC World
May 23, 2001
Frank Thorsberg |
Sizing Up Cybervandalism: Thousands Hit Monthly Researchers find debilitating hacker attacks cross borders to hit big and small targets... |
InternetNews
July 18, 2005
Tim Gray |
Trend Micro Stops Spam at The Network Antivirus vendor Trend Micro began rolling out Network Reputation Services, a portfolio of network-based, anti-spam services designed to complement the company's existing anti-spam offerings. |
InternetNews
March 5, 2004
Ron Miller |
First Can Spam Suit Filed BobVila.com comes under fire in the first lawsuit filed under the federal anti-spam law. |
InternetNews
June 16, 2005
Jim Wagner |
AOL The Most Infected? That's 'Silly' The ISP topped an infection list at 5.3 percent, but AOL officials blamed the way the rate was calculated. |
National Defense
October 2009
Jean & Erwin |
Research Detects Spamming Attacks Researchers at Microsoft have developed a system to detect botnet attacks on Web email providers |
InternetNews
January 26, 2009
Richard Adhikari |
New Botnets Emerge as Older Peers Limp Along A changing of the guard has taken place among spam-spewing botnets. Who are some of the ones to watch? |
