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Week in review: Sizing up botnets, Conficker still alive and kicking, and a new exploit kit spotted in the wild

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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Week in review: Sizing up botnets, Conficker still alive and kicking, and a new exploit kit spotted in the wild

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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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 (fixed)

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…

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Kaspersky Lab removes Flashfake Removal Tool (fixed)