10,000 Web sites rigged with advanced hacking attack
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| The hackers also regularly change the vulnerabilities that the attack looks
| for in order to increase the chances a computer can become infected,
| Ben-Itzhak said. After the PC is infected, the malware can start collecting
| data on the machine, such as documents and passwords. Finjan has dubbed the
| attack "random js Trojan."
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1384482455&rid=-50
Who knows if all O/Ses will be centralised and patched remotely one day...
Ulteo Watch: It's alive!
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| Ulteo is now working! You can now connect to an online, Kubuntu-based desktop
| from any machine with Java, and so far it's free. Keep in mind that it's
| still in beta testing, and it's extremely newbie-oriented- it doesn't have a
| terminal at the moment, but you can still make desktop shortcuts to run
| commands.
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http://distrogue.blogspot.com/2008/01/ulteo-watch-its-alive.html
Related:
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
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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