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Conficker continues to plague the enterprise
"It's been the number one threat in the enterprise for the last two-and-a-half years," said Microsoft's Tim Rains.
Three ways cyber criminals make money from hacking you
It seems like new reports of cyber criminals and botnets are surfacing every week, often with the revelation that they are making off with large sums of money to boot. Security vendor Trend Micro
Botnet militia amassing for unknown purpose
A vast militia of infected computers is being marshaled, but how this botnet will be put to use remains unknown, reports Tim Greene at Network World. Since August, malicious email attachments have
How an early warning system could protect against cyber attacks
Here's an inspiring idea from InfoWorld's Roger Grimes: To combat escalating online anarchy, let's build an Internet-wide early warning system that alerts organizations immediately when a malicious
DDOS against Wikileaks; how to mitigate an attack on your business
The dangers of Distributed Denial of Service attacks were once again brought to the forefront even as the controversial whistle blowing site Wikileaks found itself booted by its U.S.-based Domain
Zeus Trojan mules used fake names, passports
Cybercrooks who allegedly stole millions of dollars from U.S. business bank accounts used unauthorized automated clearing house transactions, according to court documents made public when indictments
New study says cybercrime costs enterprises $3.8 million a year
A new report by the Ponemon Institute has pegged the average cost of cyber attacks at $3.8 million a year. This figure comes from an actual study of 45 U.S. organizations involved in data breaches
German government steps in to clean malware
At the fourth German IT summit last week, the German government announced plans to help its citizens detect and eliminate malware from their computers. This will be done in conjunction with ISPs who
Botnets won't be going away anytime soon
This week comes news of how members of the FireEye security team put together an operation that crippled a major botnet known as Mega-D. The move saw spam levels from this botnet dramatically
Researchers work together to take down botnets
Members of the FireEye security team struck at the heart of a major botnet as part of a coordinated attack. Spam from the Mega-D botnet came practically to a standstill as team members worked to
