Spam levels reach 96 percent
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| Global email security and archive service provider, SoftScan, says that in
| October the percentage of email that was blocked by its servers reached an
| all-time high of 96.10 percent, a sure indication that spammers are still
| making money.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/15221/1054/
Thousands snared by malware warning from big-name websites
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| The scam is the latest to piggyback on banner ads that are fed to
| high-traffic destinations. Malicious code hardwired into the ads prompts a
| pop-up that warns of a bogus security threat on the visitor's machine. It
| offers to fix the problem in exchange for a fee and for credit card
| information. The ad then attempts to install a back door on the victim's
| machine.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/11/07/rogue_antispyware_ads/
SPAM is also responsible for a lot of the phishing scams, which are dispatched
from arbitrary zombies also.
Related:
Hotmail still riddled with spam
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| Microsoft has admitted that up to 98 per cent of messages sent to
| Hotmail addresses are spam.
|
| [...]
|
| The findings will disappoint Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, who
| predicted at the 2004 Davos World Economic Forum that spam would
| be "eliminated" within two years.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2188226/hotmail-riddled-spam-admits
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/
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.
|
| 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
The end of Windows, or a security expert gives up
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| And then go and warn others to do the same. Windows is defeated - its days
| are over. It carries the worm inside. So whatever will happen next: RIP,
| Windows.
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http://wolfgang.lonien.de/?p=456
Gathering 'Storm' Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets
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| Although it's most commonly called a worm, Storm is really more: a worm, a
| Trojan horse and a bot all rolled into one. It's also the most successful
| example we have of a new breed of worm, and I've seen estimates that between
| 1 million and 50 million computers have been infected worldwide.
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http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2007/10/securitymatters_1004
Security expert: Storm botnet 'services' could be sold
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| "This effectively allows the Storm author to segment the Storm botnet into
| smaller networks," Stewart wrote in his blog post. "This could be a precursor
| to selling Storm to other spammers, as an end-to-end spam botnet system,
| complete with fast-flux DNS and hosting capabilities. If that's the case, we
| might see a lot more of Storm in the future."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6213781.html
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