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From the Register : A botnet that was once responsible for an estimated third of the world's spam has been knocked out of commission thanks to researchers from security firm FireEye. After carefully analyzing the machinations of the massive botnet, alternately
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One of the pieces of conventional wisdom that goes through my head is that if you install pirated versions of software, then your computer is more likely to be infected with malware. It makes sense; in order for spammers/malware authors to take
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All Spammed Up has a new post up referencing an article that security researchers have issued a report indicating that Spain is the country with the most infected computers, at 44.5%. The United States is second at 14.4%. The countries with
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Setbacks and Triumphs The domain registration task became exponentially more challenging on March 4, 2009, with the discovery of Worm:Win32/Conficker.D. Investigators reverse-engineered the new variant and determined that it was programmed to generate
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The Conficker Working Group Is Born In January 2009, representatives from a number of security research companies and domain registrars, along with the anti-botnet Shadowserver Foundation, began discussing how best to implement a defensive Domain Name
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One of my favorite stories in the recent edition of the Microsoft Security and Intelligence Report v7 , pp 29-32, is that of the story of Conficker. I thought I would repost it here because it illustrates the problem of Conficker and the way the industry
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Every 6 months or so, Microsoft releases its Security and Intelligence Report for the previous 6 months of the year. SIRv7 is now available here . This is a very comprehensive document covering topics from the entire threat landscape that
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Spoiler alert. This past weekend, I got a chance to watch the 4th installment in the Die Hard series, Live Free or Die Hard . I hadn’t seen the whole thing end-to-end before, only parts of it. It was nice to finally get a chance to see the
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MAAWG is an organization that started up in response to the spam problem. Its official name is the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, and they are meeting this week in Philadelphia to discuss all things abusive. I didn’t go this time around,
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Last week, I commented on the the Gmail/Hotmail/Yahoo username and password leak. The question we now ask is whether or not we are seeing an increased amount of spam from those services. The folks from All Spammed Up recently posted that various
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I wasn’t going to comment on this until later, but the story is spreading; there’s a link off the Yahoo Canada homepage. 10,000 usernames and passwords were posted this past week, victims of a phishing scam. From Computerworld : If (technology
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I attended the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference this past week in Geneva, Switzerland and had a pretty good time there. I came away with a number of themes: Spam is not going to go away any time soon, but it is not the growth industry in internet
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Originally posted by Larry Seltzer of PCMag: There are probably several new malware variants out per hour somewhere around the world, but only a small fraction have impact.What distinguishes the truly effective malware from the great unwashed malware
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Is Windows insecure by design? In the Security and Intelligence Report, version 6 , Microsoft looks at security vulnerability disclosures. Vulnerabilities are weaknesses in software that allow an attacker to compromise the integrity, availability,
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As I was saying in my other post, I take issue with the claim that Windows is insecure by design. Is this actually true? It is a perception that certainly resonates within the software community, particularly among Mac and Linux users.
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