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- 10 answers to your questions about botnets
- Michael Kassner recently asked TechRepublic members to submit questions about botnets, promising to forward them to the experts at Arbor Networks. Dr. Jose Nazario volunteered to provide the following informative answers.This download is also available as an entry in our 10 Things blog.
- Tags: Arbor Networks, Question, Michael Kassner, Blogging, Internet
- Download resources 2008-11-21
- Arbor Networks abandons security space
- I was actually in Ann Arbor last week when news broke that Arbor Networks had acquired Ellacoya a so called "deep packet inspection" technology vendor. I was perplexed. That's not security. First let me clear up some terminology. "Deep Packet Inspection" was...
- Tags: Arbor Software, Sales Force, Arbor Networks, Telephony, Mergers & Acquisitions, Telecom & Utilities, Content Management, Security, Telecommunications, Networking, Investment, Finance, Enterprise Software, Software, Richard Stiennon
- Blog posts 2008-01-21
- Arbor Uncovers Worm Infections Inside One of the World's Largest Banks
- Located in more than 100 countries worldwide, this major financial institution delivers banking, lending and investment services to individual customers and businesses. The bank needed to ensure that its security measures would meet government requirements, fend off increasingly complex security threats and gain better visibility into its internal corporate network....
- Tags: Bank, Arbor Software, Infection, Arbor Networks, Financial Services, Routers & Switches, Networking, Security
- Case studies
- Arbor Peakflow X Provides Cost-Effective Security for Investment Bank Thomas Weisel
- Thomas Weisel Partners TWP is an investment bank specializing in the growth sectors of the economy including the technology, healthcare and consumer sectors. TWP's IT staff was spending too much time in often unsuccessful attempts to identify and block a growing number of worms, viruses, Botnets and other malware, including...
- Tags: Bank, Arbor Software, Security, Information Technology, Investment, Arbor Networks, Arbor Peakflow X, Thomas Weisel Partners, Strategy, Management
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- Brazilian ID thieves using Twitter as botnet command channel
- Arbor Networks security researcher Jose Nazario has stumbled upon a crimeware botnet using Twitter as its command-and-control operation. The botnet, which is linked to identity thieves in Brazil, uses Twitter status messages to communicate with bots -- sending new links for the infected computers to contact and...
- Tags: Twitter, Spyware, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Financial Services, Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Twitter knocked offline by DDoS attack; Koobface returns with a twist
- Popular microblogging service Twitter was knocked offline for an extended period this morning by what appears to be a massive distributed denial-of-service attacks. Twitter confirmed the outage was linked to malicious attackers in a brief status message posted around 11:00 a.m EST. We are...
- Tags: Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2009-08-06
- Cloudy day: Google falters; Packets lost in key cities
- Updated: Here's how Google's outage unfolded on Thursday... We're getting various reports via that Google services are down or at least sucking some serious wind. The service appears to be back as of noon-ish EDT in New York City. Google cites a "traffic jam" in Asia for...
- Tags: Google Inc., AT&T Corp., Outage, Manufacturing, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- Conficker Cabal fights threat to security, Internet
- ICANN is leading the white hats in an "extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle" against the forces behind the Conficker malware, John Markoff reports in the Times. Dancho Danchev noted recently that: Among the key innovations of the Conficker worm (W32.Downadup) was the pseudo-random domain...
- Tags: Researcher, Malware, Conficker Program, Internet, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Security, Viruses And Worms, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-03-19
- DDoS applications becoming democratized, tools of protest
- In a presentation at SOURCE Boston, Dr. Jose Nazario of Arbor Networks stated that DDoS applications are moving from the domain of trained attackers to tools for the average person to voice a political statement. During his presentation, Nazario covered the major political DDoS events from the...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2009-03-11
- Microsoft announces industry alliance, $250k reward to combat Conficker
- Microsoft has announced an alliance of various industry partners whose goal is to fight the Conficker worm. The announcement is short on actionable methods for stopping the worm, but it does include one gem: a $250,000 US bounty for information leading to the capture of those responsible for the...
- Tags: Adam O'Donnell, Alliance, Cyberthreats, Jose, Management, Microsoft Corp., Security, Strategy, Viruses And Worms, Worm
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Will EDoS be the next DDoS?
- A noted security analyst has proposed a new twist on the traditional denial of service model where attackers purposefully inflate the bills of cloud service users until they can no longer afford service. Christofer Hoff, the Chief Security Architect at Unisys, has recently been discussing the concept...
- Tags: Distributed Denial Of Service, Security, Adam O'Donnell
- Blog posts 2009-01-25
- After McColo, spam way down - temporarily
- Spam plummeted by two-thirds, in the wake of the plug being pulled on alleged cybercrime host McColo, according to news reports. But virtually no one thinks spam will continue at today's low level of merely 60 billion spam messages per day. ...
- Tags: Spammer, Eastern Europe, Spam, Cyberthreats, Security, Spam And Phishing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this year
- Net bombarded by heaviest ever attacks this yearBingo - ! ntntBotnets = WindowsXP machines used by inexperienced people are the main backbone of botnets.Call me a zealot, but if everyone was using Linux - as user - this simply wouldn't be happening. The Linux platform is hostile to both the...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, SECURITY, botnet, attack, Linux, virus, vaccine, Internet Service Provider
- Discussion threads 2008-11-12
- BBC hit by a DDoS attack
- The British Broadcasting Corporation (bbc.co.uk) was hit by a DDoS attack on Thursday, according to a statement sent to the Inquirer : "In a statement to the INQ, the BBC said the attack originated in a number of different countries but didn't specify which. When the Beeb's techies blocked...
- Tags: British Broadcasting Corp., Distributed Denial Of Service, Attack, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- DNS cache poisoning attacks exploited in the wild
- UPDATE: Arbor Networks have provided more details in their "30 Days of DNS Attack Activity" analysis, SANS confirmed HD Moore's statement on DNS cache poisoned AT&T DNS servers. Numerous independent sources are starting to see evidence of DNS cache poisoning attempts on their local networks, in what appears to be...
- Tags: Query, DNS, Vulnerability, Server, Attack, Domain Names, Networking, Internet, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-07-29
- Security is hard, accept it
- * Ryan Naraine is on vacation. Guest editorial by Dr Jose Nazario The past 10 or 15 years have been about the same things, largely, over and over again: input problems into single system applications or kernels. Buffer overflows (splitvt! NCSA...
- Tags: Security, Ryan Naraine
- Blog posts 2008-07-10
- YouTube shut down reveals some serious net security weaknesses
- It isn't often that the world of political repression interferes with our ability to watch home videos of cat tricks, but in a bizarre turn of events that's what happened over the weekend. Google-owned YouTube is a favorite target not only of copyright holders, who complain the...
- Tags: Security, YouTube Inc., Pakistan, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, BGP, Networking, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-25
- News to know: Vista virtualization; OOXML; OpenOffice; Leopard developers; eBay
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft finally broadens Windows Vista virtualization rules. Dan Farber: Microsoft’s unveils its grand virtualization strategy Mary Jo Foley: IBM, Google quietly supporting OOXML? Reminder: Microsoft to push Silverlight to business users this week David Morgenstern: Mac...
- Tags: Developer, Apple MacBook, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., eBay Inc., IBM Corp., Virtualization, Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Utility Computing, Notebooks, Storage Management, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Notebooks & Tablets, Storage, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-22
- What will the hackers be targeting in 2008?
- A forecast released by Arbor Networks suggests that the iPhone will become a major target for hackers in 2008. Do iPhone users have anything to worry about? Well, I'd say that all depends on whether there are enough users from the "stupid crowd" to target. After all, hackers follow the path...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Hacker, Hacking, Microsoft Windows, Security, Operating Systems, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2007-12-12
- Can Trend Micro's botnet identification service make a difference?
- Trend Micro today rolled out its SecureCloud software-as-a-service platform with a new Botnet Identification Service BIS to help find botnet command-and-control servers and block communications between them and the zombie PCs they control.Geared towards ISPs and enterprise customers, the botnet ID service can be used to block communication to/from command-and-control...
- Tags: Vulnerability research, Viruses and Worms, Symantec, Spyware and Adware, Spam and Phishing, Rootkits, Responsible disclosure, Punditocracy, Pen testing, Patch Watch, Microsoft, Passwords, Metasploit, McAfee, Hackers, Google, Firefox, Exploit code, Data theft, Browsers, Botnets
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
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