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New Bios attack renders anti-virus useless
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| A new form of attack that installs a rootkit
| directly onto a computer's Bios system would
| render anti-virus software useless,
| researchers have warned.
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http://www.hackinthebox.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=33987
Jose Nazario on Botnets and the History of DDoS Attacks
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| Over the course of a few days in February 2000,
| a lone hacker was able to bring some of the
| Web's larger sites to their knees, using just a
| few dozen machines and some relatively primitive
| software to cripple Yahoo, eBay, E*trade,
| Amazon, ZDnet and others for hours at a time. No
| one knew it at the time, but these attacks would
| come to be seen in later years as some of the
| earlier outbreaks of what has become a massive
| online pandemic.
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http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/root-botnet-epidemic-113009
Related:
One-third of Security Essentials users infected: Microsoft
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| Almost a third of the customers who have
| installed Microsoft's free Security
| Essentials software have been found to be
| suffering from major malware infections.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/28745/53/
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
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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