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Government DDoS botnet W32.Dozer continues to spread
Symantec Security Response is continuing to monitor a cyber attack – a distributed denial of service (DDoS) – impacting multiple U.S. and South Korean government, financial and media Web sites. A...
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Understanding security threats
Last year we embarked on producing an occasional series of short video’s looking at common internet threats and issues. So far they have covered: Phishing, Botnets, The Underground Economy and Drive-by...
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One Percent Of US PC’s A New Bot?
There is a new piece of malware doing the rounds, a Trojan called Zeus or ZBot (and according to one sourceit has infected 1% of PCs in the US and is now the source of the largest bot network in the...
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Deck the Halls with Spam and Folly
Spammers have been capitalising on the shift towards online Christmas shopping, warns according to Symantec’s November State of Spam report outlines that sales of ‘luxury goods’ and counterfeit brands...
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Vancouver Winter Olympic Games get underway
Cybercriminals can’t wait for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games to get underway tonight. No, spamming, hacking and creating botnets haven’t become an Olympic sport, but these malicious attackers...
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Don’t Slow Down Your Business this 2010 – Watch out for these 10 security...
Two months into the New Year and we’re already starting to see a number of our 2010 cyber security predictions come true. At the start of the new decade, cybercriminals continue to be relentless in...
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The Butterfly effect – Mariposa
A virus-infected network of nearly 13 million computers around the world has been smashed by Spanish police. The Mariposa, or Butterfly, botnet included PCs inside more than half of America’s 1,000...
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£6 Per Hour…
No, this isn’t a comment on minimum wage… £6 ($8.94) is the cost of a botnet for an hour! The average cost is further reduced if you rent it for 24 hours. Just what can you do with a botnet, well they...
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