botnet news from FierceCIO

The potential for email spam on Valentine's Day is so great that even the FBI is getting involved. "With the holiday approaching, be on the lookout for spam e-mails spreading the Storm Worm malicious Read more...

As if you didn't already have enough reasons to hate the authors of the recurring "Storm Worm," IBM has estimated that that the worm makes as much as $2 million a day by renting out its extensive Read more...

Got VoIP security? Well if you don't, this may be the year that you see the first serious attacks on your VoIP networks. It may also be the year that the forthcoming presidential election and Olympic Read more...

The FBI recently announced the arrest and prosecution of several cybercrime cases against individuals accused of defrauding banks, companies and consumers. It is part of an FBI probe called Read more...

If you think online attacks and phishing are getting worse, you're correct--at least according to Dave Cullinane, eBay's chief information and security officer. On Tuesday, at a Microsoft-sponsored Read more...

Botnets, networks of hundreds or even thousands of infected machines, aren't going away anytime soon. They can be used to wreak real havoc, including spamming and theft of financial and Read more...

Consider this statistic: botnet malware is currently living on 11 percent of the 650-plus million PCs online today, most of them Windows-based computers. As one computer scientist describes it, Read more...

The battle against spam is getting tougher thanks to more advanced technology like sophisticated botnets that can detect when a compromised server has been taken down, which then target the next Read more...

Florida law enforcement has nabbed a botnet operator who targeted Akamai, a Web cache provider, hitting the company's DNS servers with a forceful denial of service attack. The incident knocked Read more...

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