Spam Flows Despite High-Profile Arrest
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| Like most spammers these days, authorities say, Soloway sent out
| unsolicited bulk e-mails using networks of compromised computers
| called "zombies." These are generally home computers whose owners
| typically have no idea that their machines have been infected with
| viruses or other malicious programs; service providers can't easily
| block messages from zombies because they are mixed in with
| legitimate messages.
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| [...]
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| Microsoft spokesman Lou Gellos said the arrest not only removes
| Soloway from spamming "but it throws caution to others that are
| doing it as well. There's hope that this causes a ripple, if not
| a wave."
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http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070531/spam_arrest.html?.v=8
So, Microsoft has apparently declined to comment on the fact that Mr. Soloway
contrinued to exploit its highly flawed operating system. According to CRN,
nothing has changed with Vista/Longhorn. Expect many years of increased
levels of SPAM to come.
Related:
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
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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