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BBC team buys a botnet, DDoSes security company Prevx

Update: BBC Click's tweet states that they took legal advice following comments on the potential violation of U.K's Computer Misuse Act. There's a slight chance that you may have unknowingly participated in a recent experiment conducted by the BBC. In a bit of an...

Tags: Team, Cybercrime, Experiment, British Broadcasting Corp., BBC Team, Team Management, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Backups, Security, Management, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-03-12

Legal concerns stop researchers from disrupting the Storm Worm botnet

What if security researchers were able to disrupt the leftovers of the Storm Worm botnet thanks to a flaw in its communication model allowing them to redirect infected hosts and eventually disinfect them, but fearing legal action have their hands tied? At the 25th Chaos Communication Congress,...

Tags: Node, Malware, Worm, Stormfucker, Waledac, Cyberthreats, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-01-16

Today's Debate: Should doctors e-mail patients?

Today's Debate: Should doctors e-mail patients?Email AuthenticationSMTP needs to change to address one of the most notable defects--authentication of the sender's identity.There are proposed changes, e.g., SMTP-AUTH, but none is in widespread use uniformly or mandated in any way.Top that major deficiency off with email exploits like the latest [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_Worm]Storm...

Tags: authentication, patient, e-mail, e-mail patient, physician

Discussion threads 2007-09-04

How HP bugged e-mail

How HP bugged e-mailSecurity Companies Violating PrivacyWhen they were warned internally, they cannot say they were unaware of the illegality.Dunn and the rest must be prosecuted -- unless the California AG decides to sit this one out and hope for huge campaign donations from HP.I assume that this only works...

Tags: Spam, e-mail, Hewlett-Packard Co., SeaMonkey

Discussion threads 2006-09-28

Steve Gibson weighs in on WPA-PSK keys

Steve Gibson weighs in on WPA-PSK keysHard knocks for little profit...sounds like a good standard for home security to me. Home users need to do threat assessment similar to the big boys. We think about what we have to protect and invest in an appropriate level of security. I'm not...

Tags: Network security, WIRELESS, Wireless LANs, WPA-PSK, Steve Gibson, WPA, WEP, Wi-Fi, security

Discussion threads 2005-11-15

Zotob damage deep but not widespread

Zotob damage deep but not widespreadmalicious payloads vs. remote controlled botnetsin my opinion, zotob was an extension of the ethical belief that spyware writers have. backdoor access with remote command execution capabilities for advertising, identity theft or DDoS based attacks seem, to me, most common.the potential intent of those...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Cyberthreats, Zotob worm, computer, specific viru

Discussion threads 2005-10-26

Exploit out for Zotob-like Windows flaw

Exploit out for Zotob-like Windows flawGet real help here!Do not depend on Microsoft to help you, get help with free third party software here!http://www.searchwars.squarespace.com/free-software-downloads/In addition the best AV system you can buy is here! http://www.nod32.comDon't risk it!Download Fedora Core here: http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/And you can start coming to ZDNet.com just to...

Tags: Spyware, PRODUCTIVITY, Spyware, adware & malware, Microsoft Corp., Zotob worm, Windows Flaw, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2005-10-21

Sasser author confesses in trial

Sasser author confesses in trialBoo on MS for having a virus capable OSand major bad karma on virus writers for making damaging exploits worms viruses. Now just don't put them in the same prisons with those who do physical harm, . . and maybe not in Martha Stewarts suite...

Tags: Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Cyberthreats, Sasser author, Sasser worm, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-07-05

It's Windows vs. Windows as Microsoft battles piracy

It's Windows vs. Windows as Microsoft battles piracySince alternatives are free, there is no excuse for pirating.If you like Windows and want to use it, then buy it. If not, then select an alternative. There are quite a few, and many of them are free.So to address the question in...

Tags: Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-02-03

Witty worm crawls through ISS firewalls

Witty worm crawls through ISS firewallsThis is a Microsoft specific ActiveX exploitThis is another Microsoft Windows specific exploit. How cleverly this was not even hinted at, much less mentioned in this article. ActiveX is another way in which Windows funnels hostile functionality straight into the heart of the computer you...

Tags: Firewalls, Cyberthreats, Network security, SECURITY, firewall, virus, Microsoft Windows, software, Witty Worm, ActiveX

Discussion threads 2004-03-22

MyDoom virus declared worst ever

MyDoom virus declared worst everFrom Russia with LoveAppears the virus might have originated in Russia. This points out that it most likely was not Linux advocates who created the worm since Russians could care less of the legal silliness here in the states. Most likely they targeted SCO...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Viruses and worms, Linux, SECURITY, MyDoom virus, virus, worm, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2004-01-28