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[SC Magazine] A brief history of the 'Botwar' > Botnet > Vulnerabilities ...: Two months later spam recovered to previous levels, as the surviving botnets relocated their C&C channels and criminals spawned new botnets. Botnet operators were forced to re-evaluate how they functioned and put more protection in place to prevent a repeat of the huge disruption caused by taking down a single ISP.

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[CNET News.com] Amazon EC2 cloud service hit by botnet, outage | Security - CNET News: The representative also added: "It's also important for developers who leverage cloud services to use the same security best practices that they would if they were operating in their own data center or a collocation facility. We provide security best practices to help customers protect themselves from malicious users inside or outside of the cloud."

[Botnet Analytics Blog] Botnet Analytics Blog » Mariposa Botnet Analysis: This allows the bot master to infinitely extend the functionality of the malicious software beyond what is implemented during the initial compromise. In addition, the malware can be updated on command to a new variant of the binary, effectively reducing or eliminating the detection rates of traditional host detection methods.

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[Schneier on Security] Schneier on Security: Bot Networks: Getting back to the secure ID tokens etc when even a remote posibility "technical" attack gets published, how long would it take a bot net to exploit it and crack a private secret and therfore make the forgery of fraudlant tokens possible...

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[The Blog Herald] Downadup Worm Infection: Cyber Attacks on the Rise in 2009 | The ...: :D Mac, long touted as the most secure consumer product, has had a viruses and attacks in recent years, especially with the widespread adoption of iPods, iPhones, and Mac laptops coming back into fashion. There have been attacks against Linux and other services, though not as widespread or public as Windows, which is the most common operating system in the world.

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