Tag: botnet
Scary Story – part deux
Well as I said in my Feb 8 post on scary malware stories….. well it’s been a little more than a week but the news is catching up. Here are the latest stories on the bad guys: From the BBC: The battle against the botnet hordes Describes the efforts by law enforcement to battle botnet […]
Posted: February 21st, 2008 under General.
Tags: bad_guys, bbc, botnet, hack, internet, malware
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Bot Net Weather Report
Here is a scary report that kinda should read like a weather forecast. As the number of bot net infected computers goes up, probablity of precipitating spam increases. Like real rain, the probablility that you personally will get rained on depends on your activities and location. Of course, bring your umbrella (spam filter) since it […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2007 under General.
Tags: bad_guys, botnet, spam, spammers, spam_problem
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Vint Cerf on Botnets
I have previously blogged on spam and the threat spam represents to the internet (see related posts on the left of this page). Included in these posts have been nearly unbelievable statistics on the size of spam problem and number of computers on the internet that have been hijacked. Well, a new chapter in this […]
Posted: January 27th, 2007 under General.
Tags: botnet, spam, spammers, spam_problem
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