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- FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herders
- FBI crackdown nabs 8 botnet herdersI like that !!!Yes indeed...GOOD!!!!Let the Convicted CHOOSE CANING INSTEAD OF JAIL TIME.BUT NO PROBATION.quid pro quoonly if they cane the bastards at enron and other companies that cooked books and ruined lives as wellTrue, at least then they would be productive...Unlike the Linux script...
- Tags: Federal government, FBI, herder, crackdown, punishment, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-11-29
- Police arrest suspected bot herders
- Police arrest suspected bot herdersAt least they weren't nerf herdersscruffy looking or otherwiseThe only good Bot herder is a DEAD herderThe scum that is Bot Herders deserve to die a very painful death.Can mr Cluely clue us in, HOW ON EARTH a 63 and a 19 year old``Graham Cluley, senior...
- Tags: Bot herder, bot, herder, herd
- Discussion threads 2006-06-27
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- What's wrong with an exploit being sexy?
- What's wrong with an exploit being sexy?Ignore the fanboisActiveX gave us global computing. If we were stuck with *nix we'd still be back in the 70s with only the IT high priests and obsessive hobbyists playing with computers. Sure some people make mistakes in coding, but the benefits...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Operating systems, Cyberthreats, computer code, Zkiwi, exploit, Unix, global computing, computing, operating system
- Discussion threads 2008-06-10
- Another free security utility: Trend Micro's RUBotted
- Trend Micro has released a beta of RUBotted, a little program that watches for incoming bot related traffic. Here's the Trend Micro description: RUBotted intelligently monitors your computer's system behavior for activities that are potentially harmful to both your computer and other people's computers. RUBotted monitors...
- Tags: Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-01-11
- News to know: IT wary of Web 2.0; DST looms; New My Yahoo
- Notable headlines: Dion Hinchcliffe: More organizations shift to Web 2.0 while IT departments remain wary.AT&T may try to alter pact with Yahoo: WSJ AP: Gates, Buffett Top Billionaires Ranking. List.Daylight Saving woe:Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft customers melting down over Daylight Saving patches.Larry Dignan: Your DST IT nightmare: Who’s to blame?...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-03-09
- Talkative botnet herder taunts security researchers
- Talkative botnet herder taunts security researchersThis hacker is an idiot[i]So why attack the Symantec anti-virus program? A lot of businesses and universities run the application, making it a prime target for exploitation.[/i]Why on earth would he target something just because it had a lot of marketshare? Doesn't he know that...
- Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, security, Symantec Corp., operating system, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2007-03-08
- 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...
- Tags: McAfee, Symantec, Data theft, Viruses and Worms, Exploit code, Botnets, Spyware and Adware, Responsible disclosure, Spam and Phishing, Vulnerability research, Rootkits, Browsers, Hackers, Patch Watch
- Blog posts 2007-03-08
- Pump-and-dump bot war?
- 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...
- Tags: Spam and Phishing, Spyware and Adware, Botnets, Exploit code, Viruses and Worms, Websense Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-02-06
- Ian Murdock, cat herder
- Ian Murdock, cat herderSounds interesting.Sounds interesting.Here's their blurb from their website - I'll copy/paste too, to save you clicking the link.http://www.freestandards.org/about/The Free Standards Group is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the use of free and open source software by developing and promoting standards. Key Free Standards Group projects...
- Tags: UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Linux
- Discussion threads 2006-04-22
- Ian Murdock, cat herder
- On Monday, the Free Standards Group will launch a new version of the Linux Standard Base. AP broke an embargo on this story Saturday, but I've been sitting on an interview with FSG CTO Ian Murdock since Thursday and there's one word from that interview that stands out.Endurance. In other...
- Tags: LSB, Ian Murdock
- Blog posts 2006-04-22
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