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Storm Is Back--With Porn Scam
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| The size of the spam run is staggering, said MX Logic in an e-mail alert
| Friday morning. "The MX Logic Threat Operations Center reports that it has
| received over 8 million of these messages, accounting for over 85% of its
| worm traffic over the past 24 hours," said the warning.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,147394-pg,1/article.html
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
100 e-mail bouncebacks? You've been backscattered.
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| The bounceback e-mail messages come in at a trickle, maybe one or two every
| hour. The subject lines are disquieting: "Cyails, Vygara nad
| Levytar," "UNSOLICITED BULK EMAIL, apparently from you."
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| You eye your computer screen; you're nervous. What's going on ? Have you been
| hacked? Are you some kind of zombie botnet spammer?
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http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=1698505531&rid=-50
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