Data finds over 1 m UK Home PCs Belonging to Botnets The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported that a Dutch security researchers’ group trying to determine methods by which compromising of home PCs can be lessened from getting criminally used, recently, discovered that crime botnets seized over 1m home computers in UK.
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According to McAfee’s third quarter security threats report (Q3-2011), revealed by Intel-owned security technology firm, cybercriminals seems to change their tactics of circulating malware for avoiding law enforcement, reports v3.co.uk on November 21, 2011. Commenting on the findings, Toralv Dirro, Security Strategist at McAfee Labs EMEA (Europe Middle East and Africa) said that as a result of a sudden augment of virus indulgence, large botnets are being shut down and operators are being driven to concentrate more on smaller and localized networks, highlights v3.co.uk on November 21, 2011. While explaining the matter, Dirro claimed that law enforcement becomes more interesting when the botnet is bigger
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A new paper being presented next month at the Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC) shows easy it is to infiltrate Facebook and harvest valuable user data. Botnets, networks of hijacked computers controlled remotely for criminal gain or spreading propaganda, have been aggravating cybersecurity professionals for years. The near-billion people connected to social networks has made Facebook and Twitter the new juicy targets for similar schemes
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Researchers Show How Easy It Is To Infiltrate Facebook
The Commerce and Homeland Security departments are considering whether a set of voluntary industry standards are needed to combat botnets, the malicious networks of compromised computers controlled by online criminals, hackers and possibly nation-states. Steps being considered include a centralized customer support center for Internet service providers, a voluntary code of conduct for vendors and service providers along with incentives for participation, and an effort to identify best practices for preventing, identifying and mitigating infections. “Over the past several years, botnets have increasingly put computer owners at risk,” said a request for information published last month by DHS, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
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DHS, Commerce looking to battle botnets