Online Thugs Assault Sites That Specialize in Security Help
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| The good guys are taking a hit in the ongoing online war between the thugs
| who profit from phishing and malware, and those who work to stop them.
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| The sites are all being hit by botnets, corralled networks of
| malware-infected computers that can be issued commands by a central
| controller, or botherder. Botnets are most often used to send money-making
| spam, but they can also launch denial-of-service attacks where each infected
| PC sends a steady stream of traffic at a victim site. CastleCops is
| shouldering the brunt of 20,000 bots as of today, and more than 1,000
| additional bots join the fray each day.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20070912/tc_pcworld/137084
More 'success' stories...
Windows gets into the the translation business - and does a lousy job at it
http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=2565
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.
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| [...]
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| 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.
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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
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