So who sent you that spam? HP or Oracle?
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| Support Intelligence isn't the only firm to implicate the business
| world in the malware scourge. Webroot released a study today
| reporting that of 600 global businesses surveyed, 43 per
| cent suffered disruptions because of malware infections. Sixty
| percent had no information security plan.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/28/bots_in_perimeter/
And yesterday it turned out that, in single incident, credit card details of
over 40 million people got stolen, probably by hijackers.
Rise in online banking fraud
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| Customers are advised to guard their computers by installing
| anti-virus and anti-spyware.
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http://www.sundaytimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=424637
Hackers tailoring attacks to hit different victims
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| Top experts with the Atlanta-based research operation said that
| malware writers, phishing scheme operators, and botnet herders
| are more frequently employing so-called personalisation tools to
| make their attacks more effective.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/cybercrime/news/index.cfm?newsid=2392
Related:
Image spam fattens junk mail
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| The increased size of spam messages, to say nothing of their volume,
| might result in higher costs for end users forced to up their
| bandwidth and storage resources.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/03/26/image_spam/
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. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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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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