Tag: malware
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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Another Scary Malware Story
It seems just about every week there’s another story about scary stuff on the internet; malware, viruses, spam, botnets etc. It has become common place to describe the Internet as "the wild west". Really now, was the wild west ever THIS bad? I seriously doubt it! Here is the latest story from the BBC on […]
Posted: February 8th, 2008 under General.
Tags: bad_guys, bbc, internet, malware, spam
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Check for Malware, a Windows Hack
Hackzine published his weekend a little 4 command hack for Windows to check for malware activity. Since every little bit helps in the malware wars, it’s probably worth putting this simple check in your hacker toolkit. Basically, the commands record open tcp/udp sockets. A quick check of the results can alert you to any strange […]
Posted: September 24th, 2007 under General.
Tags: bad_guys, hack, internet, malware, windows
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