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- Botnets: German researchers fight back
- In a recent post of mine, "Kraken: The biggest, baddest botnet yet," there wasn't much good news. In fact, reports describing the potential for harm and economic loss are downright scary. There maybe a glimmer of hope though. I just finished reading a Techworld article, "Researchers ‘poison' Storm botnet" by...
- Tags: Researcher, Bot, Peer To Peer (P2P), Productivity, Internet, Michael Kassner
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Can botnets be beaten?
- This week, Georgia Tech unveiled BotSniffer, a prototype system designed to detect and disable botnets. Using traffic analysis the BotSniffer tries to identify botnet members by looking for command and control channels.Apparently the BotSniffer detector has been built as an independent plug-in for the popular open source intrusion detection system...
- Tags: Network, Command, Instruction, Bot, Analysis, BotSniffer, Networking, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2008-02-19
- New Zealand police moves in on botmaster of one million bots
- As part of the FBI's Operation Bot Roast II, New Zealand police cracked down on a suspected botnet ringleader in New Zealand, whom the FBI says controls over one million computers illegally. This is part of the same operation that resulted in the arrest of security consultant...
- Tags: FBI, New Zealand, Bot, Federal Government, Government, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-11-30
- webbot bot="HitCounter" can not run on iis6
- web component "Hit Counter" Microsost FrontPagecan not show in IIS6 + Windows 2003 Serverbut run on iis4+windows2000server not problem
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Servers, wetin2549@..., Microsoft IIS 6.0, bot
- Discussion threads 2007-11-05
- Geek Trivia: Thinking outside the 'bots
- Not a quibble.....Just wondering what was with the eye patch and Arrgh! Did a certain Ubergeek go nuts on a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon? Or are you trying out Halloween costumes? Just askin'......Aaargh, Matey!I see ye'll be walking the plank soon if you don't start talking like a pirate....
- Tags: support@..., Arnold, Arrgh, Austrian, Geek Trivia, bot, Arrr
- Discussion threads 2007-09-19
- Geek Trivia: Thinking outside the 'bots
- Contrary to what the Terminator movie franchise may have led you to believe, the science of cybernetics is not explicitly and entirely about developing superhuman cyborgs bent on waging a war for human destiny. (That would be political science.) In truth, cybernetics is one of the broadest and most esoteric...
- Tags: Bot, Cybernetics, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-09-18
- ISP caught doing DNS hijacking in fight
- ISP caught doing DNS hijacking in fight against botsDo you have anything to add about the DNS hijacking methods that is being adopted?This is completely unacceptable!.If a DNS server does not faithfully return the correct IP address for a given domain name, then it is breaking the trust. Most folks...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Domain names, NETWORKING, paulmah@..., bot, Internet Service Provider, DNS, server
- Discussion threads 2007-07-30
- ISP caught doing DNS hijacking in fight against bots
- According to Wired Blogs, Internet service provider Cox Communications is reportedly diverting attempts to reach certain online chat channels. When a legitimate attempt is made to connect to certain channels, Cox sends the IP address of its own IRC server instead of responding with the correct one....
- Tags: DNS, Internet Service Provider, Malware, Bot, Cox Communications Inc., Marvin_, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Networking, Internet, Security, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-07-29
- Fighting back against the botnets
- We have been talking quite a bit about the perennial problems of botnets recently, starting off with FBI uncovers more than one million botnet victims early last month. A number of readers have suggested that the only way to deal with this problem at all would be...
- Tags: Bot, Intrusion Prevention, AJAX, Productivity, Internet Relay Chat (IRC), Networking, Security, Internet, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Web 2.0, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- FBI rounds up bot-herders, national security at stake
- During the May 2007 Anti-Phishing Working Group Counter eCrime summit in San Francisco, researcher Joe St. Sauver spoke about the need for a government agency to step up and help in the war against consumer computer compromise. He stated that consumers aren't capable of taking the steps necessary to prevent...
- Tags: Viruses, Virus, Leadership, Internet, Security, Attack mitigation, Computer Crime, Computer Forensics, Cybercrime, Cyberwarfare
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- AT&T wants to "police" content on its network
- article rootMessage was edited by: Jay GarmonAT&T's move to police contentUser privacy gone for a toss ?RE: ATSo, let's see. We bash the ISP's for not doing more to clamp down on user's that are zombies in a bot net. They get bashed for allowing pirated software to...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), pr.arun@..., Internet Service Provider, zombie computer, bot, privacy, AT&T Corp., network
- Discussion threads 2007-06-15
- FBI unearths over 1 million botnet victims
- However the golden question is, what strategies do you folks down in the trenches employ to identify and generally cope with bot infections.Get the ball rolling: How I do itThe problem with bots is that if a PC is infected, you no longer have any assurance that the rest of...
- Tags: paulmah@..., bot, FBI
- Discussion threads 2007-06-13
- FBI unearths more than one million botnet victims
- The United States Department of Justice and FBI announced in a press release that ongoing investigations under a national initiative called Operation Bot Roast have identified more than 1 million potential botnet victims. At the moment, the FBI is working with its industry partners, including the likes...
- Tags: FBI, Bot, Computer, Federal Government, Productivity, Government, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2007-06-13
- Lock down the BIOS to defend against rogue users
- Sometimes the devil you know is worse than the one you don't know. How do you handle rogue users who inadvertently put your organization's network at risk? Take away the temptation. Mike Mullins tells you how to lock down the BIOS on company machines. While writing this column over...
- Tags: BIOS, Michael Mullins CCNA, MCP, bot, security, Security Solutions Newsletter, Network, Goal, Admin Password, Mike Mullins, Hardware, Components, Michael \"Mullins CCNA, MCP\"
- Technical articles 2007-05-24
- Photos: 2007 Robot Hall of Fame inductees
- RoboBusiness conference features this year's honorees, plus bots inspired by the 3D One-Leg Hopper developed in the '80s.
- Tags: Robots, bot, robot, 3D, photograph, conference
- Image galleries 2007-05-16
- Photos: Robots as toys, tools and teachers
- RoboBusiness 2007, a robotics conference held this week in Boston, presents bots for use by the military, children and researchers.
- Tags: Robots, robotics, bot, robot, teacher, Boston, researcher, photograph, conference, tool
- Image galleries 2007-05-16
- WHO'S BEHIND CRIMINAL BOT NETWORKS?
- http://redtape.msnbc.com/2007/04/whos_behind_cri.html#postsThe most important quote in this article to me is:[b][i]Driven by revenge[/i][/b]..[i]Last year, a noted Russian spammer nicknamed PharmaMaster – he usually advertises pharmaceuticals – felt his business was endangered by a Silicon Valley anti-spam startup named Blue Security.PharmaMaster initiated an attack that crippled Blue Security's Web site. The firm...
- Tags: SECURITY, Banking, Spam, droolin, network, Blue Security, PharmaMaster, bot, attack
- Discussion threads 2007-04-11
- 25% of all computers on botnets
- A lot of these bot nets use to be started on IRCWhat happened over a period of time was that because these bot nets were used to attack various irc networks, the network's got together and formed a security group. This security group pass's information to each other, and...
- Tags: bot, bot net, botnets, computer, droolin, IRC, networking, security
- Discussion threads 2007-01-29
- Robots on the loose at CES
- At the gadget fest in Las Vegas, iRobot's newest bot scoots and hoists, WowWee's Panda chats and Robo Elvis looks good in leather.
- Tags: iRobot Corp., fest, bot, robot, Las Vegas, Consumer Electronics Show
- Image galleries 2007-01-11
- Build your own bot, courtesy of iRobot
- Correct link to the photo galleryCreating a customized iRobothttp://content.techrepublic.com.com/2346-3513_11-40262.htmlAd-Server Plus Plus!"This custom-made robot chases people around and serves up ads."Oh Dear God!!! Let me get my baseball bat...;)
- Tags: bot, hardware, irobot, iRobot Corp., news, Sonja Thompson
- Discussion threads 2007-01-08
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