Archive for August, 2010

PushDo Botnet Crippled by Researchers

Continue Reading Add comment August 31st, 2010

Researchers have made a huge dent in a major variant of the Pushdo botnet, virtually crippling the network by working with hosting providers to take down about two thirds of the command-and-control servers involved in the botnet.

Rustock Botnet Responsible for 40 Percent of Spam

Continue Reading Add comment August 25th, 2010

More than 40 percent of the world’s spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle,

URL Shortening Services Used in SPAM

Continue Reading Add comment August 4th, 2010

Spammers know that if they include a direct link to their site that their spam messages will not go through so they use URL shortening services to redirect you to their site if you click on the link in the spam message.


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