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Botnet criminals have flooded the Internet with a surge of attachment spam in recent weeks in a desperate attempt to rebuild a spam-distribution industry under pressure, security experts have suggested.
By John E Dunn | 20 August, 2011 01:12
A large network of hacked computers called Rustock, which was responsible for a great volume of spam, has shut down, perhaps as a result of another coordinated take down by security researchers.
By Jeremy Kirk | 18 March, 2011 01:15
A new phishing scam that targets bank and PayPal passwords and other consumer data that criminals use to loot private accounts is designed to beat security built in to Firefox and Chrome Web browsers.
By Tim Greene | 17 March, 2011 05:01
ISP Virgin Media is now using organisations such as The Shadowserver Foundation to work out which of its customers might be part of botnets spreading the dangerous Zeus online banking Trojan.
By John E Dunn | 17 August, 2010 02:24
The anglo-US company that bought out Finjan, M86 Security, has distanced itself from the fractious patent suit enveloping a number of well-known antivirus companies and the company that held on to Finjan's patents, FSI Inc.
By John E Dunn | 16 July, 2010 19:13
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