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[News] [Rival] 0wned Windows PCs a Dime a Dozen, Crime Ensues

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] 0wned Windows PCs a Dime a Dozen, Crime Ensues
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:51:56 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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17 arrested in Canadian hacking bust

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| Quebec police have arrested 17, breaking up a botnet hacking network that 
| infected more than 100,000 computers. 
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=830278361&rid=-50


Yesterday:

The battle against the botnet hordes

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| Typically owners of machines forming a botnet do not know their computer has 
| been hijacked. Home users account for 95% of all attacks mounted by botnet, 
| according to figures from security firm Symantec.  
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7256501.stm


Related:

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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