Hackers update malware tool kit with zero-day attack code
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| A new version of the IcePack hacker tool kit has been released and for the
| first time it includes attack code designed to exploit an unpatched, or
| zero-day, Microsoft vulnerability.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=195653108&rid=-50
More Windows zombies?
Rogue Nodes Turn Tor Anonymizer Into Eavesdropper's Paradise
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/news/2007/09/embassy_hacks
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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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