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- (1) roBOT A program used on the Internet that performs a repetitive function such as posting a message to multiple newsgroups or searching for information or news. Bots...
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- Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
- 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...
- White papers 2009-04-16
- WormRadar 2.0.0.2 (Windows)
- 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...
- Software downloads 2005-02-16
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- Oh, it's on: Apple counters Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunters' ads with 'Megan'
- Oh, it's on: Apple counters Microsoft's 'Laptop Hunters' ads with 'Megan'5 viruses already, including the famous Izombie Bot net and......a new worm that ZDNet has already written about just yesterday. how many viruses/worms did OSX have? None, untill a couple of months ago.Yesterday, a 10.5.07 just came out, with a...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-13
- New Mac OS X email worm discovered
- A newly discovered email worm dubbed OSX/Tored-A once again puts the spotlight on the potential worm-ability, and malware spreading tactics targeting Apple's OS X. The worm propagates through emails harvested from infected hosts, and has a backdoor functionality allowing its author to perform the following actions if...
- Blog posts 2009-05-07
- 'Psyb0t' worm infects Linksys, Netgear home routers, modems
- More information has surfaced about the botnet "psyb0t," the first known to be capable of directly infecting home routers and cable/DSL modems. It was first observed infecting a Netcomm NB5 modem/router in Australia. Members of the website DroneBL, a real-time IP tracker that scans...
- Blog posts 2009-03-25
- Stealthy router-based botnet worm squirming
- Stealthy router-based botnet worm squirmingAnd there are SOOO many routers with default "admin" password out there!Something tells me that shipping hardware or software with default passwords is hacker friendly.How many have WAN access by default?I have not seen a router that comes pre-configured with allow control over WAN activated by...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-23
- 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...
- Blog posts 2009-02-12
- Google: no evidence of a Gmail vulnerability
- Google: no evidence of a Gmail vulnerabilityGmail problems ignored by google!Apparently my gmail page was hacked and infected by the clickjacking worm/trojan/bot. After months (April? August to date)struggling with an undetectable (by AV/computer pros) clickjacking problem, I infected a new laptop computer by clicking on the link to my sophos...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-27
- MS08-067 worms squirming in the wild
- First came Microsoft's emergency patch. Then the public release of reliable exploit code. Now, virus hunters are reporting two new in-the-wild worms exploiting the critical MS08-067 vulnerability. The worms, intercepted on Chinese-language versions of Windows, are being used to install a Trojan downloader, a denial-of-service bot and...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- Immunity launches exploit for 'unlikely' Windows worm hole
- Immunity launches exploit for 'unlikely' Windows worm holeRE: Immunity launches exploit for 'unlikely' Windows worm holeWow! Windows has an exploit? One that is exploitable? Really??? No way! Not the "great Microshaft" that we have all come to know and hate! Come on Microsoft! ...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-29
- In zombies we trust
- In zombies we trustIn microsoft fools trustTheir junky, bug filled code is to blame for all of these woes. The incompetent manner in which they develop and test their so-called 'operating system' has built an empire of bloated security application vendors, with no incentive to improve as it may hamper...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-20
- Storm Worm botnet could be world's most powerful supercomputer
- Storm Worm botnet could be world's most powerful supercomputerSince we've known of this problem for so long..why is internet end point security left up to the general public? With all of the government back initiatives, why not initiate one that will strip these trojans out at the ISP or or...
- Discussion threads 2007-09-06
- Securing the PC
- An interesting report by Robert Lemos on Security Focus last week got me thinking about the money and effort going into what the PC people think of as "security."What the report was nominally about was the difficulty PC defenders have in shutting down bot-net attacks where control moves across...
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Botnet herders pounce on Windows DNS RPC flaw
- Online criminals have pounced on the unpatched Windows DNS Server service vulnerability, using the security hole to seed and replenish for-profit botnets.The latest twist in the ongoing attacks comes less than a week after Microsofts pre-patch advisory provided clues for hackers to write and release detailed exploit code.Anti-virus researchers have...
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Talkative botnet herder taunts security researchers
- The botnet operator behind the virulent Nirbot Trojan is having a field day taunting anti-virus researchers. While it is common to find messages and shout-outs buried in virus code, the persons behind Nirbot is rather talkative, leaving hostile threates directed at specific individuals, a strange apology for something involving...
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- ALERT - Super Bowl website can infect your computer!
- ALERT - Super Bowl website can infect your computer!Which URL then?I went to the site. The exploit was not in the site's source code, and I could find no other URL for the site in question.Sshshsh!!!I want them to go there and get infected for I am behind the evil...
- Discussion threads 2007-02-02
- Port scan spike hints at BrightStor attack
- Detailed exploit code for gaping worm holes in CA's BrightStor ARCserve Backup product has been posted on the Internet, prompting a strong "patch now or else!" warnings from security researchers.At least three exploits -- which provide step-by-step instructions to launch remote attacks -- have been posted at Milw0rm.com, increasing the...
- Blog posts 2007-02-01
- Critical Mac QuickTime zero-day exploit released!
- Critical Mac QuickTime zero-day exploit released!Shoot the messenger?When you should be shooting Jobs...No need to lose sleep over thisI mean literally. This was posted at 3:00 AM George.I hope when the MoWB comes out you'll be just as enthusiastic to provide blow by blow accounts.Hurray!That'll show those obnoxious smug...
- Discussion threads 2007-01-02
- SANS names top hacker targets
- SANS names top hacker targetsSANS names top hacker targetsWhen you are the top dog its only natural for people to want to attack you. Its ok, Microsoft stood up very well against the attacks that targeted their OS and I'm thankful for that. More market share means more...
- Discussion threads 2006-11-15
- Morocco jails two over Zotob worm
- Morocco jails two over Zotob wormIs this all the jail-time they were given2 and 1 year respectively . I'm beginning to wonder if crime does pay ? Un*uckingbelieveable !!!!need longer jail termsMy company got hit we where down 2 days need to give them longer jail terms. Hacking looks like...
- Discussion threads 2006-09-12
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