If you are new to or would like to know more about the conficker worm that has given many administrators sleepless nights, I have compiled a few URLs to resources that will help you understand how the worm operates, how to detect it and how to contain it.
Interesting article about BBC’s own little investigation into botnets and spamming and how easy it is to spam (the larger subject of course was cyber crime).
They basically set up a small botnet and asked the zombied PCs to spam two email accounts they had set up on Gmail and Hotmail.
Remember the post about how big security vendors are moving down the food chain to consolidate their hold on the security market? Well IBM through its partnership with (a much smaller) BigFix has released a desktop security solution that is positioned to enhance endpoint security and “reduce cost”.
Looks like F-Secure made it to the “sql-injected” and “xsscripted” list.
F-Secure has published the IT Security Threat summary for the second half of 2008.
Summary:
Growth in amounts of malicious software
Growth in infections
Growth in the number of botnets
Growth in criminal profits
Call for growth in punishment
Highlights:
On Botnets infections
During 2008 our Response Lab conducted a small research project focusing on approximately 60 orphaned botnets. Listening to the communication attempts [...]
