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		<title><![CDATA[FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3507]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission FTC has shut down a U.S.-based Internet Service Provider for recruiting, hosting and actively participating in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content.    Pricewert LLC (also known as 3FN and APS Telecom) was shut down by a district court...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:58:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1014083]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a significant quantity of innocent Internet-attached systems and, in the process, acquiring the owners of those systems as unwitting Although they are...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -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[Can Trend Micro's botnet identification service make a difference?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=409]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 09:37:58 -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['Operation Bot Roast' nets million-strong botnet operation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=298]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Law enforcement authorities today announced the arrest of three men accused of using a million-strong botnet of hijacked computers for spam-related crime.The FBI said its "Operation Bot Roast" identified more than one million victim computer IP addresses being used in criminal activity."The FBI  is working with our industry partners,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:17:01 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pump-and-dump bot war?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=17]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Security researchers are seeing signs of gang warfare among pump-and-dump spam scammers.In one scenario spotted by Websense Security Labs, two separate spam runs were launched earlier this week, attempting to lure targets into buying a penny stock.It was the usual image spam that included a Web forum component where the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:43:57 -0800</pubDate>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/spam+and+phishing.html"><![CDATA[Spam and Phishing]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[Defeating IRC Bots on the Internal Network]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1174191]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The rapid growth of botnets represents the greatest computer security threat facing individuals and corporations today. Fuelled by financial incentives and readily available source code, malware authors pursue aggressively the development of newer modules and the exploitation of code into these bots. This paper describes the process of setting up...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/mcafee+inc..html"><![CDATA[McAfee Inc.]]></category>
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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>
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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>
		<category domain="http://updates.zdnet.com/tags/carnegie-mellon+university.html"><![CDATA[Carnegie-Mellon University]]></category>
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		<title><![CDATA[WormRadar 2.0.0.2 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=711609]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[WormRadar is designed to measure worm and bot prevalence on the Internet. Probe events are captured and reported to WormRadar s Web site, where the results are graphed. If it is allowed, all nodes will synchronize themselves to network time, and all events are reported to the millisecond, UTC. Each...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Unreal Tournament 2003 - Trojan bot skin (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=694471]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the Trojan bot skin for UT2003.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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