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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

Additional Resources

Herdin' CatZ 1.4 (Mobile)

See if you have what it takes to control the most cantankerous animals to ever travel in herds. Drive cats into corrals, avoid dogs and brooms, and chase a mouse or two. But don't get frustrated, that's just what they want. So push, prod, and claw your way through 5...

Tags: Mobile, Notions Software, Mice, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-07-08

Combating Botnets Using the Cisco ASA Botnet Traffic Filter

This paper discusses the nature of botnets, the threats they pose to today's networks, and how the Cisco Botnet Traffic Filter enables Cisco ASA appliances to fight botnets and to handle their dynamic nature. A botnet is a collection of autonomous software robots bots, typically malicious in nature, that operate...

Tags: Bot, Cisco Systems Inc., Botnet

White papers 2009-06-01

AMD CIO: Key to success is fusion of business acumen and tech innovation

The intersection and fusion of business insight and technological innovation is the key to creating successful new business models, said AMD Chief Information Officer Ahmed Mahmoud today in the keynote of Wharton Business School's 13th annual business technology conference, "Future Unleashed," in Philadelphia. In a "fireside chat"...

Tags: Innovation, Information Technology, IT Professional, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Technology, Strategy, Management, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-27

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

The Gnome Herder 1.0 (Mac)

Capture the naughty flying Gnome men to return them to their lonely wives in this challenging 3D game.

Tags: Apple Macintosh, GNOME, RAMDreams, Open Source

Software downloads 2007-06-11

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

Herdin' Catz 1.4 (Mobile)

See if you have what it takes to control the most cantankerous animals to ever travel in herds. Drive cats into corrals, avoid dogs and brooms, and chase a mouse or two. But donÂ't get frustrated, thatÂ's just what they want.So push, prod, and claw your way through 5 worlds...

Tags: Mobile, Mice, Advertising & Promotion, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing

Software downloads 2001-05-04