Storm Worm variant targets blogs, bulletin boards
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| Storm Worm emerged in January and raged across the globe in the form
| of e-mails with attachments that, when opened, loaded malicious
| software onto victims' PCs, commandeering the machines so they could
| be used for further attacks.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6162623.html
Related:
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/
Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
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| "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
| botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
| of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
| harness more than a million computers around the world and use
| them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
| change."
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
http://tinyurl.com/39zfap
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