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Success of Microsoft's Botnet Battle Questioned
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| A prominent security researcher today said he
| doubts Microsoft's take-down of the Waledac
| botnet would have any impact on spam levels,
| as the company claimed.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/190270/success_of_microsofts_botnet_battle_questioned.html?tk=rss_news
Do The Ends Justify The Means In Microsoft's War On Spam?
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| Microsoft argued that it had linked 277
| domain names to a botnet, a network of
| compromised computers instructed to perform a
| task such as denial of service attacks and
| sending spam e-mails. Some computers in a
| botnet are run by spammers themselves, but
| the majority are "drones" or infected
| computers whose owners are unable to stop or
| unaware of the task being performed.
| Microsoft alleged the domains were part of a
| botnet called Waledac, which the company
| estimates includes between 30,000 and 90,000
| drone PC's, according to The Journal.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/02/do-the-ends-justify-the-means-in-microsofts-war-on-spam/36598/
Recent:
Another Windows security flaw is discovered
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| ANOTHER DAY, another Windows security flaw,
| it seems.
|
| This time Microsoft has posted Security
| Advisory 977377, which reports a
| vulnerability in the Transport Layer
| Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer
| (SSL) protocols.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1591399/another-windows-security-flaw-discovered
New Trojan Targets U.S. Banking Credentials
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| A researcher at SecureWorks has uncovered a
| new Trojan swiping credentials of customers
| of roughly 15 large and medium-sized banks
| in the United States.
|
| SecureWorks has dubbed the malware the
| Bugat Trojan. The malware has similar
| functionality to other banking Trojans such
| as Clampi and Zeus, and was seen being
| distributed by a Zeus botnet.
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http://securitywatch.eweek.com/trojan_attacks/new_trojan_targets_us_banking_credentials.html
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