Sunday, February 8th, 2009 On Monday, OpenDNS, the free DNS service, plans to start blocking the Conficker worm's attempts to connect to potential control servers. According to The Register, the new free service will also be able to alert administrators to the presence of the Conficker worm and assist them in locating infected machines.Conficker ...
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Friday, January 9th, 2009 A team of researchers from Bonn University and RWTH Aachen University have analysed the notorious Storm Worm botnet, and concluded it certainly isn't as invulnerable as it once seemed. Quite the reverse, for in theory it can be rapidly eliminated using software developed and at least partially disclosed by Georg ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 Even routinely clean antivirus scans can’t hide the dirty little secret more enterprises are facing today: Some of their client machines are members of botnets.That’s why Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist for MessageLabs Ltd. , hopes to educate some large organizations and ISPs on how to detect and clean up ...
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Saturday, September 6th, 2008 Researchers have created a proof-of-concept application for Facebook that turned the machines of people who added the app to their Facebook page into a botnet that launched denial-of-service attacks on a victim server in a demonstration."Social Network Web sites have the ideal properties to become attack platforms," according to a ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008 Criticize the people behind the Asprox botnet, and they take it personal—so much so that they will bombard you with malware, according to a report by SecureWorks.The botnet, now at least 50,000-strong with bots, is sending out phishing e-mails posing as messages from banks in the United States and United ...
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