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Microsoft confident that TDL-4 botnet is not indestructible
Reports about the TDL-4 botnet , which analysts have called "practically indestructible," partly due to the presence of a secondary peer-to-peer network to stymie take-down attempts, did not sit well
North Korea blamed for March DDoS attacks on South Korean websites
Researchers from security vendor McAfee have analyzed the botnet responsible for a 10-day DDoS attack that paralyzed a number of South Korean websites in March. In a detailed 16-page report, McAfee
Stormy seas ahead in fight against botnets like TDL-4
The fight against botnets looks set to get tougher, judging from recent research from Kaspersky Lab on the TDL-4 malware. If you haven't seen it in the news yet, you may want to read more about how
TDL-4 botnet is 'practically indestructible,' 'the most sophisticated threat today'
A new malware called TDL-4 has been named "the most sophisticated threat today" by Kaspersky Lab. In a detailed analysis, the security vendor estimated the botnet created by TDL-4 has infected 4.5
Trend Micro bumps a Zeus botnet server off the Net
Security vendor Trend Micro on Wednesday announced that it has successfully eliminated a Zeus botnet server, otherwise known as a command-and-control (C&C) server, from the Internet. In a blog
How to know if you've been breached
A recent survey found that more than 40 percent of organizations are unsure how often they are the target of advanced network attacks, and 50 percent take a month or more to detect these attacks. To
SOUND OFF: What keeps CIOs awake at night?
The ZeuS botnet (a.k.a. Zbot) remains on the loose, stealing usernames and passwords to break into bank accounts. The Stuxnet worm is haunting industrial control systems around the globe--rumored to
Security firm: DDoS botnet up for rent
A new botnet has been uncovered and it's available for commercial rent for DDoS on-demand, warns security firm Damballa. DDoS, or distributed denial-of-service attacks, are targeted Internet attacks
Researcher cracks Google's reCAPTCHA, releases algorithm
Independent researcher Chad Houck this month demonstrated his work on solving Google's ( NASDAQ: GOOG ) reCAPTCHA, which was designed to foil software bots that attempt to spam or abuse its free
Move to clean malware by Germany might ultimately be ineffective
Ever had a malware problem? Most folks will answer "no" to this question; yet if the number of botnets numbering in the tens of thousands is any indication, the malware problem is much bigger than we
