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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.   |
InternetNews
November 4, 2005
Tim Gray |
Botnet Zombie Maker Faces 50 Years Federal Authorities have arrested and charged a California man with hijacking hundreds of thousands of computers and creating a vast zombie network that launched denial of service attacks and spewed spam. |
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. |
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? |
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
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. |
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
February 25, 2010 |
Microsoft Scores Win Against Waledac Botnet Microsoft obtains temporary injunction ordering shut down of 277 Internet domains suspected of orchestrating massive "Waledac" botnet, one of the nation's 10 largest. |
InternetNews
March 18, 2011 |
Rustock Botnet Beaten Down by Microsoft On the heels of last year's successful takedown of another giant botnet, Microsoft just shut down a bigger and more sophisticated botnet this week. |
InternetNews
April 27, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain. |
PC World
October 24, 2007
Erik Larkin |
The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers. |
InternetNews
August 23, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Storm Worm Gathers Strength on The Internet The Storm worm virus is still around, still causing trouble and stronger than ever six months later. |
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
June 29, 2009
Alex Goldman |
Botnet Blight: Hacked PCs Create 83.2% of Spam A MessageLabs report finds spammers are hard at work with increasingly sophisticated, attack-resistant botnets. |
InternetNews
October 3, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Symantec Adds Bot Hunting to Managed Services By using a traceback method, Symantec can look for hidden botnets within a corporate network. |
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. |
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? |
The Motley Fool
February 25, 2004
Dave Marino-Nachison |
Jones Apparel Stirs Up Maxwell The acquisitive firm makes a play for a growing shoe company. |
BusinessWeek
October 2, 2006
Ben Elgin |
Click Fraud's Next Frontier If you place an advertisement on Google or Yahoo!, and you're paying the search giants each time somebody clicks, it would be nice to know that the clicker is a human being who might actually purchase your product. Unfortunately, there are no such assurances. |
InternetNews
May 24, 2010 |
Racy Malware Tags Facebook Accounts For the second time in as many weeks, Facebook users are being tricked into downloading adware disguised as a video of attractive young women in bikinis. |
