All Posts Tagged Botnet

Imagine the botnet problem, now and then

January 8th, 2007 | No comments

If you think the whole botnet issue is bad now – zombiefied computers galore spewing more virus-laden pharmaceutical spam than you can shake a stick at – imagine what it will be like when everyone has one of these. I guess the bright side is…if it is stuck in a closet with no monitor, you [...]

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Botnet double duty

March 3rd, 2006 | No comments

We know botnets around here as the scourge that dispenses spam. But lets not forget that failure to clean up the messes does more than add to the spam problem. Criminals are still using botnets to redirect URLs, muck up browser home pages, and the like, and they are also using them to direct denial-of-service [...]

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Bots have sitdown with Harry Potter

November 15th, 2005 | No comments

Rumor has it that Harry Potter will soon be loaning his invisibility cloak to bots. No, that is a feeble attempt at humor, so I’ll stop. Actually, experts expect that it won’t be long before botnets are using encryption technologies to hide themselves from network scanners. Encryption won’t completely hide activity – it’ll just mask [...]

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Massive Botnet Attack on the prowl

June 6th, 2005 | No comments

I don’t have a heck of a lot to say about botnets, as I have a firewall doing NAT translation in front of my machines, and software-based firewalls and anti-virus protection on all machines. And I receive little or no spam, so in essence, I don’t have experience with botnets and what kind of damage [...]

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