China leads Asia in malicious online activity
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| Ooi said, noting that this volume is driven largely by the vast number of
| botnets and spam zombies.
|
| "All you need to do is install a spam plug-in for your botnet, and the botnet
| is in action," he said. "Many bots are designed to be used mainly to send
| spam."
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6209172.html
Yes, these are Windows zombies.
Google malware watchdogs bite mom-and-pop shops
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| One morning last week, Alan Jay, director of Digital Spy, woke up to discover
| that Google was warning millions of web surfers that his UK-based
| entertainment news site was one "that may harm your computer."
|
| [...]
|
| Malware-laced ads date back at least 14 months, when banners running on
| MySpace infected more than 1 million users with adware.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/google_malware_warning/
Yes, only Windows users are affected and Windows servers are often compromised
to distribute that malware. Everyone suffers.
VMware bugs shine spotlight on virtualization security
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| A set of newly discovered flaws in components of VMware's virtual machine
| software has called attention to some of the security risks associated with
| the practice of running virtual computers on a single system.
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=328077937&rid=-50
They recently open-sourced a component. Maybe they should speed that up a bit.
Related:
VMware opens the source code for VMware Tools
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| VMware's decision to open the source code is highly advantageous for the open
| source software community. Distributions will now be able to provide VMware
| Tools packages through standard package management systems, which means that
| users will no longer have to manually compile the kernel modules during
| installation.
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http://arstechnica.com/journals/linux.ars/2007/09/11/vmware-opens-the-source-code-for-vmware-tools
The VMware house of cards
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| Looking at an ESX server, you’ll find what looks like a Linux OS. This isn’t
| a secret -- VMware call this the ‘console OS’.
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http://www.venturecake.com/the-vmware-house-of-cards/
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
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