Yesterday law enforcement officials arrested 6 people and charged them with running a massive internet fraud ring. Over 4 million PCs were part of the botnet. According to the FBI the cyber ring used a class of malware called DNSChanger to infect approximately 4 million computers in more than 100 countries. There were about 500,000 infections in the U.S., including computers belonging to...
A growing OSX security problem illustrates why user education is not the solution to virus, spam or malware problems.
HT: @briankrebs
There’s been a lot of media coverage and online discussion about the Epsilon data breach, and how it should be a big wake-up call to email recipients to change their behavior. There’s also been a lot of panic and finger-pointing within the email industry about What Must Be Done In The Future. Most of the “you must do X in response to the data loss” suggestions are coming...
Spam levels plummeted 2 weeks ago as the Rustock botnet was beheaded. Reports have been trickling out in the press about the takedown, about the botnet and about the team responsible. Rustock Takedown Analysis at The Register Brian Krebs’ intitial report of the takedown Taking down botnets from a Microsoft attorney Spam Network Shut Down at the Wall Street Journal Global Spam Levels Graph...
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