Microsoft created MS08-067 to fix a serious vulnerability. MS even felt the problem was critical enough to justify an out-of-band release of the update. They were right, find out why.
After McColo was shut down, the Srizbi botnet, a major source of spam and over 300,000 strong, was effectively quieted. Not for long, Spam levels eventually started ramping back up. How’s that possible with no command and control servers? Read on to find out.
Some say yes and others say no. The people developing rootkits are smart and financially motivated to design rootkits that evade detection. So what’s the answer?
Two contracted ISPs stopped providing Web hosting firm McColo with Internet access which immediately quieted several major botnets responsible for almost half of all delivered spam. Learning how and why this was done is worth your time.
Getting rooted by a drive-by dropper is fast becoming the predominate method of involuntarily joining a botnet. Simplest way to avoid this is to keep your computers up to date. Easier said than done, well it doesn’t have to be.
In discussions about botnets, how and why a computer becomes part of a botnet are two questions that get asked quite often. Like most things in life, the answers aren’t simple. Michael Kassner sets out to provide some answers about the origins of botnets.
Rootkit and botnet developers are fighting back. It seems that every advance made by security researchers is countered with new and more sophisticated malware. Just what are these new advances and what can the rest of us expect?
In the world of botnets, Storm isn’t king anymore, but the Storm botnet’s owners aren’t giving up. This article is just a reminder by Michael Kassner of the need to remain vigilant and not fall prey to the Storm worm or it’s relatives.