____/ Ramon F Herrera on Thursday 29 November 2007 16:01 : \____
> http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/11/29/fbi.botnets/index.html
>
> One wonders what operating system are those rogue machines running...
>
> -RFH
Windows-running PCs that are controlled solely by their owner (and Mother Ship
Microsoft) are a dying breed.
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/
In zombies we trust
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| A little over a year ago, I wrote an editorial where in back-of-the-envelope
| style (.pdf) I estimated that perhaps 15-30% of all privately owned computers
| were no longer under the sole control of their owner. In the intervening
| months, I received a certain amount of hate mail but in those intervening
| months Vint Cert guessed 20-40%, Microsoft said 2/3rds, and IDC suggested
| 3/4ths. It is thus a conservative risk position to assume that any random
| counterparty stands a fair chance of being already compromised.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=661
Over 50% of corporate desktops infected with malware: IronPort
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| The report also reveals that more than 50% of corporate desktops
| worldwide are infected with some type of spyware with the rate of
| infection as high as 70% in the United States. Trojans or malicious
| system monitors represented over 7% of the infections. Rootkits and
| trick loaders, which reinstall spyware and other obfuscation techniques,
| make remediation very difficult thus prevention is the key to stopping
| these threats.
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http://www.crn-india.com/breakingnews/stories/66870.html
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