Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: What’s in your daily slice of spam? Bitdefender decided to look at just what spam – the e-mail version – c…
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The difficulties in sizing up botnets
The main metric with which security researchers identify how effective and disruptive specific botnets are is the number of computers they consists of. Estimating their size allows them to asses…
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The difficulties in sizing up botnets
Flashback botnet is a cash cow
We have all heard about the Flashback malware targeting machines running OS X and enslaving them into a botnet, but not a lot of attention has been given to the ultimate goal of the criminals behind i…
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Week in review: Hotmail 0-day bug, CISPA, and securing embedded devices
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, podcasts and articles: SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price A drop in the price asked for the latest version of the SpyEye botn…
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Week in review: Hotmail 0-day bug, CISPA, and securing embedded devices
Dedicated appliances for protection against DDoS
Fortinet introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that a…
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Dedicated appliances for protection against DDoS
Fortinet introduced the FortiDDoS product family for enterprises, Web hosting and cloud service providers. The new FortiDDoS-100A, FortiDDoS-200A and FortiDDoS-300A are dedicated appliances that a…
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Dedicated appliances for protection against DDoS
SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price
A drop in the price asked for the latest version of the SpyEye botnet has security researchers worrying that users might soon be targeted with an increasing amount of infection attempts. A Pastebin…
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SpyEye botnet for sale at bottom price
Flashback botnet decline not as fast as expected
Given the attention that the Flashback Mac malware has received since the discovery of the 600K strong botnet of computers infected with it and the number of tools that various security firms and App…
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Flashback botnet decline not as fast as expected
Behind the scenes of the cleanest ISP in the world
The malware and botnet problem has been around for quite a while, and definitive solutions for it are still eluding the Internet and mobile communication industry, as well as the security industry. …
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Behind the scenes of the cleanest ISP in the world
Kaspersky Lab removes Flashfake Removal Tool
In response to the recent discovery of the Flashfake botnet, Kaspersky Lab has released a free Flashfake Removal Tool. Unfortunately, Kaspersky Lab has identified an issue with the tool. In some ca…