Web site attack hits Italy tourism sites
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| In an Internet attack dubbed "The Italian Job," several thousand
| Italian tourism Web sites have been infected by software that quietly
| gains control of computers visiting them and seeks out confidential
| financial data, a computer security firm said on Monday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070618/wr_nm/internet_security_italy_dc
The sites I have looked at run Windows/IIS. They will create some more Windows
zombies that can be used to send SPAM and launch DDOS attacks.
Related:
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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