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Valentine Trojan onslaught blights inboxes
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| Virus authors are attempting to hoodwink unwary and lovestruck internet users
| with malware that poses as Valentine's Day-related games and email greetings.
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| The hacker tactic is a familiar companion to annual holidays, such as
| Christmas, New Year's Day and Valentine's Day. McAfee reports that the
| Valentine’s Day spam links to URLs pushing the Waledac Trojan, a strain of
| malware that has copied many of its techniques and features from the infamous
| Storm Trojan.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/09/valentine_trojan_spam/
Kaspersky, OpenDNS Collaborate to Slow Conficker Worm
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| OpenDNS has added a feature to its Domain Name System (DNS) services to fight
| a widespread worm, with help from Russian security company Kaspersky Lab.
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| OpenDNS has its own network of DNS servers that translate domain names into
| IP (Internet Protocol) addresses so, for example, Web sites can be displayed
| in a browser. The company says its system is faster than using the DNS
| servers run by ISPs (Internet service providers) and provides better
| protection against phishing as well as other features such as Web content
| filtering.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/159165/kaspersky_opendns_collaborate_to_slow_conficker_worm.html?tk=rss_news
Recent:
Storm Worm botnet meets its match
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| The Storm Worm has been causing havoc for over two years now, transforming
| more than a billion computers into drones. Following a surprisingly
| unsuccessful mission by Microsoft’s Malicious Software Removal Tool around
| 100,000 drones still remain.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/316/1050316/storm-worm-botnet-meets-its-match
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
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
Related:
Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%'
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| The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams
| in the past two years, the government's financial watchdog has warned.
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| The Financial Services Authority (FSA) told peers it was "very concerned"
| about the growth in "phishing".
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm
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