Four Bot Herders Get Put Out To Pasture
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| And Paul Henry, vice president of technology evangelism for
| Secure Computing, told internetnews.com "I applaud there effort
| to apply more cycles at getting cybercriminals. They've taken
| out three bot herders who controlled more than one million PCs."
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http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3683686
Threat Alert: Sophisticated E-mail Attacks Spread
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| This one came as a faked invoice from accounting@xxxxxxxxxxx at a
| supposed Beckman Instruments, Inc., with a Word .doc attachment
| named Proforma_Invoice.doc.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/004662.html
Related:
Microsoft is the world's biggest cause of zombie remailers
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| In China, it would take about one and one-half years wages (for the
| average Chinese) to buy a legitimate copy of Windows Vista. If you
| could find it here.
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| Microsoft is the biggest cause of zombie remailers in the world,
| because they make noises, but do not do anything to address the
| real digital inequities in the world.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38202
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
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