Storm Worm: New wave uses Tor network
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| It seems that there is a new way of luring unsuspecting users into a trap to
| turn their computer in a zombie, steal their personal information, and maybe
| worst, that came into light: Storm social engineering!
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http://www.hermetix.org/?q=node/33
Very recent:
Pfizer's computers zombied
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| Rick Wesson, CEO of Support Intelligence, said this has been going on for six
| months. He's collected 600 spam emails to prove it and adds that 138 Pfizer
| IP addresses have been blacklisted by various spam-fighting groups.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=42186
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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