Fake e-cards signal massive DDoS attack
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| Security researchers are reporting a sharp increase in the number of machines
| infected by the Storm Worm, prompting speculation that its authors, who so
| far have limited their activities to spam, intend to use it for more
| destructive purposes, such as launching massive denial of service attacks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/storm_worm_spike/
Teaching hacking helps students, professors say
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| The University of Calgary came under fire when it introduced classes that
| would task students with creating computer viruses and spam networks.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/teaching_students_hacking/
Free download empowers black hat hackers
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| The folks at Immunity, a company specializing in tools for penetration
| testing, have released a free application advertised to streamline the
| development of software exploits.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/08/free_exploit_tool/
Related:
Botnet army' behind tenfold rise in 'attachment' spam
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| "No one but the spam group knows how many PCs they can control with this
| spambot, it is assumed to be a high five figure number. If each of the PCs is
| instructed to send 200-300 spam messages containing a PDF attachment the
| spammers can send hundreds or millions of spam messages in a day - equivalent
| to 25 percent of all spam sent on a given day."
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13866&Itemid=1054
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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