Similar Articles

Browse Main Topics:

Business
Computers & Electronics
Education & Reference
Entertainment & Leisure
Family & Home
Finance & Investment
Health
Internet
Pets & Animals
Science & Technology
Society, Politics & Culture
Sports & Recreation

Similar Articles

InternetNews March 7, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Is The Storm Worm Finally Blowing Over? A report by e-mail and content security firm Marshal claims that just six botnets are responsible for almost 90 percent of spam, but others in the spam filtering business disagree with the report's findings.
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 January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Working to Regain Lost Ground Businesses can expect more malware this year as the spammers recover from the McColo take-down.
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Botnets Bouncing Back Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning - and may be stronger than ever.
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.
InternetNews January 8, 2008 Andy Patrizio	Move Over Storm, There's a New Botnet in Town Nugache, a once-minor botnet, gets an extreme makeover and may be rivaling Storm in terms of size and scale of nuisance.
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 May 26, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam Now More Than 90% of All E-Mail Spammers are increasingly directing users to compromised social networks while botnets' influence grows, according to MessageLabs.
InternetNews February 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Botnet Operators Gearing Up for Valentine's Day Spammers try to play Cupid, with a dark twist.
InternetNews January 22, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Downadup: The Web's Next Big Threat? Experts blame a lack of patching and an advanced design for the rise of a worm that could outpace Storm.
InternetNews March 18, 2010 Stuart J. Johnston	What Microsoft Learned From Botnet Takedown Even software giant Microsoft had trouble corralling the Waledac malware-spreading botnight.
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 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.
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.
InternetNews July 15, 2009	Spam Not So Profitable? Despite sending millions of messages each day, botnet operators and spam marketers rake in less than one might think.
InternetNews October 24, 2007 Andy Patrizio	The 'Storm' That Keeps Blowing The Storm worm seems to unleash one new e-mail flood or denial of service attack every week. Why won't it go away?
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 September 9, 2009	IRS Spoof Latest Cutwail Spam Scam McAfee's MX Logic says new botnet spam campaign targets paranoid taxpayers at more than 90,000 messages an hour.
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 27, 2009 Alex Goldman	Conficker Countdown: Experts Stress Caution Malware code has infected millions of PCs and will activate on April 1. What do security insiders say users need to know?
InternetNews April 15, 2010	Google Sees Spam Surging on Botnet Activity Google's Postini e-mail filtering and security service saw 30 percent spike in spam messages in March, highlighting the proliferation of botnets across the Internet.
PC Magazine March 14, 2007 Larry Seltzer	A Storm Blows Through the Web The Storm Worm virus is old news. Where is it now?
InternetNews January 12, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Financial E-mail Spam Skyrockets The bad guys really, really want your money.
InternetNews July 8, 2009 David Needle	Short URLs, Big Trouble? Security firm MessageLabs says the bad guys are exploiting a popular resource.
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IDC: Spam To Rocket Past Legit E-Mail This Year A new report by IDC says that spam could surpass legitimate e-mail in terms of volume this year as unsolicited e-mail continues to explode and e-mail falls out of favor as a means of communication.
InternetNews October 10, 2007 Andy Patrizio	YouTube's Not so Friendly Spam Bringing new meaning to the term "viral video," spammers are trying to sucker people by pretending to be legitimate YouTube messages.
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.
InternetNews December 23, 2008 Richard Adhikari	New E-holiday Card Virus Surfaces A new worm has emerged that could be much worse than the notorious Storm worm, which ruled the botnet world for nearly two years.
InternetNews July 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio	Trend Micro Readies Security SaaS Antivirus developer Trend Micro said it's ready to take on some big names with its new SecureCloud Software-as-a-Service security platform for businesses.
InternetNews May 19, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spammers Find 'Healthy' New Tactics With Acai Zombie networks and botnets are ramping up spam and using sophisticated filter penetration tactics -- to sell Acai drinks?
InternetNews April 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Spam's Carbon Footprint Worse Than 2.3M Cars In a new report, McAfee describes the price the planet itself pays for spam and makes a strong case for better spam filters.
InternetNews January 26, 2011	Spam Volume Tumbles in January New report from security software vendor Symantec reveals that worldwide spam traffic fell to a two-year low in January, largely due to a sharp decline in pharmaceutical spam.
InternetNews July 29, 2009	Spam Learns a New Language While spam levels are at their highest levels in years, much of it is the same - just translated for different countries.
InternetNews April 10, 2009 Sean Michael Kerner	Conficker's 'Kido' Spinoff Gets Busy Spamming Report says one bot can send up to 80,000 e-mails a day.
InternetNews March 4, 2010	Spanish Authorities Break Up Massive Botnet "Mariposa" gained access to information in more than 13 million PCs worldwide, making it one of the most destructive botnets in history, though authorities say that the operators weren't sophisticated hackers.
Bank Technology News December 2010 Michael Sisk	Endgame Systems Finds Botnets in the Cloud Security software provider Endgame Systems raised $29 million in the fall and simultaneously launched ipTrust, a product meant to detect and manage the harm caused by malware and botnets in cloud computing environments
InternetNews March 3, 2010	Microsoft Calls for Infected PC Quarantine At RSA, Microsoft's Scott Charney compares infected PCs' spamming to secondhand smoke - and suggests they also be banned from the Net.
InternetNews March 30, 2007 Andy Patrizio	SMBs Playing The Ostrich When It Comes To Security Small to medium-sized businesses often don't have the security policies, systems or know-how in place of their larger enterprise brethren, and that's a lurking danger.
PC Magazine August 20, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel	There's a Bot in Your PC Aiding the rise of blended threats around the world, botnets are digging in and using your network as a base of operations.
InternetNews May 5, 2004 Sharon Gaudin	Record Broken: 82% of U.S. Email is Spam Outdoing most analysts' worst predictions, spam accounted for 82 percent of all U.S. email last month.
InternetNews February 2, 2011	Rustock, Phishing Scams Boost Spam in January A flurry of new malicious spam campaigns and the return of the Rustock botnet elevated spam activity in latter half of January.
InternetNews July 20, 2009	Microsoft, Sophos: Most Spam Comes From U.S. Where does spam come from? If you guessed the U.S., you'd be right.
InternetNews November 8, 2010	Spam Surges 28 Percent in October: AppRiver Hundreds of millions of spam emails were distributed every day in October and most of them originated in the United States.
InternetNews October 30, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Hit MobileMe, Google Blogspots With new automated tools to help them, spammers are getting better at cracking CAPTCHA - a program that protects Web sites by generating and grading tests that humans can pass but computers cannot
InternetNews November 5, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Latch on to Obama Victory President-elect Barack Obama's campaign leveraged social networking all the way to victory in last night's election. But Obama's online presence has attracted some problems, too.
PC Magazine July 12, 2006 Robert Lemos	Gangland Web Attacks How not to get whacked by the botnet mafia.
InternetNews October 15, 2010	Microsoft Security Report: Botnets Enemy No. 1 In the latest installment of its Security Intelligence Report, Microsoft takes a look at the major online criminal blights plaguing enterprises and consumers, ranking botnets the worst of the worst.
InternetNews June 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Ever-Morphing Bagle Virus Going Strong A new variant of the Bagle downloader virus is spreading havoc again on unsuspecting users' machines, according to e-mail security firm MessageLabs.
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.