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		<title><![CDATA[Your Botnet Is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1153243]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Botnets, networks of malware-infected machines that are controlled by an adversary, are the root cause of a large number of security problems on the Internet. A particularly sophisticated and insidious type of bot is Torpig, a malware program that is designed to harvest sensitive information (such as bank account and...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Spamming vendor launches managed spamming service]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1899]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A spamming vendor known as the SET-X Corporation, has recently launched the distributed SET-X Mail System, a sophisticated managed spamming service available for rent on a monthly basis starting from $2000, promising to achieve "spamming speed" of 5000 to 7000 emails per minute and over 1 million spam messages per...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:04:36 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ringleader of cybercrime group to be offered a job as cybercrime fighter]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1502]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Owen Thor Walker, a 18 years old ringleader of an international cybercrime group, known as AKILL, part of the A-Team, a group of 8 script kiddies which were all caught in a operation called "Operation Bot Roast II" bust executed by the FBI and several international law enforcement agencies in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 11:46:04 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208-12691-0.html?forumID=1&threadID=49597&messageID=928637&start=0]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Verizon, Telecom Italia, and Brasil Telecom top the botnet charts in Q2 of 2008I proposed a solution a while back.Any ISP can see who is compromised.  That's obvious from the accurate stats you have.  My idea, simply put, enforce all zombied machines to a proxy.  This proxy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:29:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Operation Bot Roast: Too little too late]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=349]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[* Ryan Naraine is on vacation.Â Guest Editorial by Dr Jose NazarioThe US FBI has kicked offÂ Operation Bot Roast this summer with the goal of addressing the botnet problem. Hurray for them,it's good that something is being done. However, this is probably not going to stop the botnet problem, and maybe...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:59:47 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Google blasts Web bots: PC big culprit in drive by downloads]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/?p=1311]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[As more users are connected to the Internet and conduct their daily activities electronically, computer users have become the target of an underground economy that infects hosts with malware or adware for financial gain, so laments Niels Provos, Google Software Engineer.Provos chaired a Google sponsored research forum on Botnets last...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 07:29:15 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[AIAB (Am I a Bot) 1.1 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=739873]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[AIAB is a malware detection tool, it will scan your system for the characteristics of malware and display it s results. It allows you to terminate a listed process or disable a detected start up. AIAB s scan parameters are stored in a local file so advanced users can add...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/malware.html"><![CDATA[Malware]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Botnets as a Vehicle for Online Crime]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=169445]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[An analysis of real-world botnets indicates the increasing sophistication of bot malware and its thoughtful engineering as an effective tool for profit-motivated online crime. This analysis of source code and captured binaries has provided insight about: how botnets are built, what capabilities botnets possess, how botnets are operated, how botnets...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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