How to Defend Against New Botnets

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• Publisher:
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• Tags:
• spam - e-mail fraud - phishing,
• deals,
• cost effective,
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This white paper reviews the content security threat landscape and how it has evolved into a more dangerous and high risk environment. The paper discussed how conventional content security approaches...

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How to Defend Against New Botnets

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According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were responsible for 90% of spam in 2008. More importantly, these compromised "robot" computer networks do not seem to be going away anytime soon. The...

• Publisher:
• MessageLabs, now part of Symantec

• Tags:
• anti-hacking

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Web-borne malware is now more common than malware that enters an organization through email. The number of Web sites discovered per day, that carry malware increased 400% in 2008....

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Re:Viewing 2004: The security threats

Often users whose machines are infected with remote access Trojans will be unaware of the part they are playing in perpetuating the problem of spam and phishing - and nothing creates the ability to build botnets than already having access to a...

• Channel:
• Malware
• Tags:
• phishing,
• viruses,
• hackers,
• spam

Is latest can of worms a cyber-crime turf war?

A botnet of about 5,500 "zombies", or compromised computers, typically costs spammers, phishers or other crooks about $350 per week, security company Symantec has said. These botnets are rented out to relay spam and launch phishing scams, which...

• Channel:
• Malware
• Tags:
• zotob,
• virus,
• cyber crime

Zombie armies are shrinking, says security guru

A botnet is comprised of thousands of computers that have been surreptitiously transformed into zombie PCs without their owners' knowledge. He added: "When a larger botnet is spreading a virus, it lights up the switchboard of [antivirus] vendors...

• Channel:
• Malware
• Tags:
• zombies,
• botnets,
• botnet,
• zombie

Re:Viewing 2005: The year in security

And an interesting side-effect of more targeted attacks has been the diminished need for vast botnets - networks of compromised end-user PCs used to send spam on behalf of the criminals. Mark Sunner, CTO at MessageLabs, told silicon.com such 'spear...

• Channel:
• Security Strategy
• Tags:
• cyber security,
• spam,
• security,
• banks

Is Spit set to soar?

Juergen Quittek, senior manager at NEC Network Labs, said: "Now the telephony world is migrating to internet telephony, botnet platforms can be used to create spam phone calls as well as emails. The software uses a variety of techniques to detect...

• Channel:
• VoIP security
• Tags:
• voip spam,
• spit,
• spam

Cyber criminals building more but smaller botnets

Mika Stahlberg, programme manager of the security response team at F-Secure, said the company is still seeing very big botnets around the world but coders are no longer trying to build as big a botnet as they can because that does not make any...

• Channel:
• Security Strategy
• Tags:
• f-secure