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[News] Linux-based Akamai Shows Brute-force Windows Zombification Attempts

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Akamai: US Home To Attacks, Slow Internet

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| Microsoft's Remote Procedure Call port 135 saw the most attacks hitting it, 
| with nearly 30 percent of attacks trying to break into systems that way. 
| Another 13 percent tried to tag NetBIOS through port 139.  
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/05/29/akamai-us-home-to-attacks-slow-internet

22 arrested in hacking ring

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| At this point le plod are not ruling out economic espionage as the motivation 
| for the attack. However since many of the suspects are young, with
| one only 13 years old, they might have only been doing it "for LOLs".  
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/29/22-arrested-hacking-ring

Young children can build Microsoft Windows botnet before they even grow pubic
hair.


Recent:

I Was A Teenage Bot Master

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| One day in May 2005, a 16-year-old hacker...
|
| [...]
|
| So great was SoBe's sense of impunity he continued the scheme even after
| Ancheta was arrested a few months later and charged with 17 felonies related
| to the hijacking of almost 400,000 PCs, some of them belonging to the US
|                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Department of Defense.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/downfall_of_botnet_master_sobe_owns/


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
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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