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Cracking CAPTCHA: Another Russian Business
http://www.avertlabs.com/ research/ blog/ index.php/ 2008/ 10/ 10/ cracking-capt…We’ve already written about CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart), the mechanism used to protect web sites, forums, and mailing systems against the automatic creation of accounts and contents.
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Fast flux Cloud Computing (elastic botnet)
http://www.elasticvapor.com/ 2008/ 10/ fast-flux-cloud-computing-elastic.htmlFor anyone looking to create their own global compute cloud, the botnet serves as the perfect blueprint for a resilient fault tolerant network. Lately botnets are proving to more resilient and harder to shut down then any other form of cloud technology. So needless to say we can learn a lot of our criminal counter parts.
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Anti-Virus' Trouble with Botnets
http://www.realtime-websecurity.com/ articles_and_analysis/ 2008/ 10/ antivirus_…Keeping up with botnet tactics can look like a futile effort sometimes. Businesses need to understand that anti-virus software isn't always a match for today's botnets.
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Cutwail Botnet
http://blog.mailchannels.com/ 2008/ 10/ cutwail-botnet.htmlIt looks like the Cutwail Botnet is attempting to increase it's size at the moment. While checking our spam honeypot network for any interesting new attacks, I found a sample of a new attack with the latest version of the Trojan. In fact, it's so new that many of the major Anti-Virus companies don't have definitions against it as I write this post.
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Spammer’s Delight
http://www.pcmech.com/ article/ spammers-delight/What you see here’s not a test; I’m a’warning you - beware! If you reply to spam and don’t give a damn; you’ll get stung, and they don’t care. They sent out spam; damn, to the people on the Internet; jammin’ up the servers; To the spam spam boogie say up jump the boogie, to the rhythmic unsolicited beat.
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Modified Zeus Crimeware Kit Comes With Built-in MP3 Player
http://securityratty.com/ article/ b4e5929a51488e98a9fe58b74de94b94Modified versions of popular open source crimeware kits rarely make the headlines due to the fact that anyone can hijack a crimeware kit's brand, build and innovate using its foundations, and claim it's a new version released by the original authors.
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Shadowserver Foundation Worthy Of Support
http://www.virtualblight.com/ articles/ ?p=85From the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) AppSec 2008 conference in New York comes a report from DarkReading.com on an interesting public service project from the Shadowserver Foundation.
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Did you see this? - Encyclopedia of internal network security threats
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/ it-trenches/ did-you-see-this-encyclo…Did you see this? - Encyclopedia of internal network security threats Posted by: Troy Tate awareness, botnet, Data security, design, homeland security, Microsoft Windows, Browsers, Firefox, Microsoft, troubleshooting, Networking, Security, antivirus, forensics, honeypot, malware, Monitoring,
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Storm Botnet Laid Bare
http://www.virtualblight.com/ articles/ ?p=78In a recent blog post, Robert Vamosi dissects the inner workings of the Storm worm botnet, after speaking with Joe Stewart from SecureWorks. This is a fascinating look into the development and evolution of one particular botnet, assumed to be running from somewhere in Russia.
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Chinese hackers take down entire city network…
http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/ 2008/ 09/ chinese-hackers-take-down-entire-city-n…Weifang, Shandong The Weifang Public Security Bureau has successfully closed a case involving a hacker attack that caused a city-wide network paralysis. In July of 2008, the Weifang Public Security Bureau Cyber Police received a report from the China Network Communications Corporation stating
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