An unending battle against email-borne nasties and botnets Spam may be the best known security threat in the world. Anyone with email or a Facebook account has experienced it, despite providers’ best efforts to block it from their inboxes.…
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Will we ever can the spam monster?
Here's an overview of some of last week's most interesting news, reviews and articles: Flaws in Android update mechanism could turn apps into malware A group of researchers from Indiana Universi…
Botnet decap should be a team effort – ex-detective infosec bod Botnet takedowns need to be improved if the industry is to avoid the risk of creating more problems than it solves every time its decapitates a zombie network, according to a former Scotland Yard detective turned security researcher.…
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Must try HARDER, infosec lads: We’re RUBBISH at killing ZOMBIES
Pied piper Symantec says it led infected computers into sinkhole Symantec has claimed credit for luring a significant lump of the powerful ZeroAccess botnet into a sinkhole.…
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‘Quarter’ of TWO-MILLION-strong zombie PC army lured to their deaths
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit has disrupted the functioning of yet another botnet by effecting a takedown of a domain which was also hosting over 500 different strains of malware and has been linked…
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Microsoft's study into unsecure supply chains leads to botnet disruption
Much bigger than Symantec says Efforts by Apple and anti-virus vendors to kill the vast botnet assembled by notorious Flashback Mac Trojan may be much less successful than previously thought.…
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Dr. Web disputes Flashback Mac Trojan bot army estimates