Botnet targets wannabe iPhone owners
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| Security solution company PandaLabs uncovered a 7,500-computer (and growing)
| botnet this week infected by a Trojan called Aifone.A. PC users who have been
| infected by the virus trying to buy an iPhone from Apple's own URL
| (iphone.com) get redirected to another site mimicking the iPhone site.
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070710-botnet-targets-wannabe-iphone-owners.html
Here is another article which explains how IE's inherent flaws are now becoming
a nuisance to Firefox, which needs to be 'Microsoft-compatible' or
interoperable (OpenOffice.org has similar issues). This results in full
compromise.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=44277
Solution: just escape Windows.
Related:
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
The feds weigh in on Windows security
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6172158.html
FBI to Notify Microsoft Windows Users Who Were Victims of Botnets
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| The Department of Justice and FBI have announced the results of
| an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle
| “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber security
| awareness of botnets.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10550/fbi-notify-microsoft-windows-users-who-were-victims-botnets
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