10 million zombies go after Google and Microsoft users brains
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| According to the report authors, the vast majority of zombie IP addresses are
| dynamic and the zombie botmasters have managed to succeed in causing large
| scale damage simply by deactivating the IPs causing the new attacks and
| switching instead between multiple other IPs in order to bypass traditional
| security solutions.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/19681/53/
What a mess. Almost 1 in 2 desktops is a zombie thanks to Microsoft's shoddy
engineering. Cybercriminals can choose a different pool of 10 million every
single day. There's an abundance (if not excess) of Windows zombie without
enough people to 'operate' them.
Microsoft hardly gives a S*.
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
Botnets Running Rampant
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| How much money is being stolen by cybercriminals? No one knows, and no one
| even knows how to go about coming up with that number, IronPort's Peterson
| said.
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144489/botnets_running_rampant.html
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