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The botnet business
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| Think you've got good security? Well, maybe
| you do. But can you say the same for your
| colleagues and friends? Probably not.
| According to RSA, EMC's Security Division,
| even at Fortune 500 companies 88% of them had
| systems that had been accessed by infected
| machines and 60 percent of them had
| experienced stolen email account information.
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http://www.itworld.com/security/106428/the-botnet-business
Big botnets and how to stop them
http://www.itworld.com/security/106429/big-botnets-and-how-stop-them
So Microsoft has always been in bed with hackers?
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| âWhen it comes to security, even hackers
| admit weâre doing a better job making our
| products more secure than anyone else.
| Brandon LeBlanc of Microsoft.
|
| I find the above quote both interesting and
| serious at the same time. The blog post
| linked to above is a Microsoft rebuttal of
| claims that Google is shifting from MS
| Windows to Mac and Linux given the insecurity
| of the Redmond cash cow.
|
| [...]
|
| The entire blog post raises just three
| questions in my mind:
|
| 1. So is Microsoft implicitly conceding that
| in the past hackers used to have a field day?
| 2. Why has it taken them so long to now be
| taking security related risks "seriously?"
| 3. Who are the "anyone else" Brandon refers
| to? Perhaps Apple or the Penguin?
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http://www.ghabuntu.com/2010/06/so-microsoft-has-always-been-in-bed.html
FBI Goes After 'Scareware' Scams
http://www.esecurityplanet.com/features/article.php/3885231/FBI-Goes-After-Scareware-Scams.htm
Recent:
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/
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