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• AT&T reluctant to support FCC call to adopt new PC security measures

  By Ellen Messmer | 09 March, 2012 05:42

  The head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) wants the ISP broadband providers to help battle botnets by being more active in helping their subscribers eradicate malware infections on their PCs. But AT&T's chief security officer said AT&T is reluctant to go beyond its current anti-malware efforts.

• 2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

  By Mark Gibbs | 09 January, 2012 16:30

  Welcome to 2012, the year the world ends. Yes, in case you haven't been following the eschatologists out there (and most of them are definitely "out there"), 2012 will be "it" for humanity. The "last hurrah". Fini. Au revoir.

• M86 finds spam is down but malware attacks are up

  By Patrick Budmar | 20 July, 2011 16:39

  Security vendor, M86, has found in the first half of 2011 a rise in malware spread through embedded files, HTML attachments, blended threats URLs and social networking scams.

• Zeus leaks give tools to researchers, attackers

  By Robert Lemos | 14 May, 2011 07:09

  The source code and a manual to the popular crimeware creation kit Zeus has been leaked, perhaps giving defenders additional tools to fight infections but also raising concerns that criminals may use the source code to create a rapidly expanding compendium of variants.

• WatchGuard’s Q1 revenue top grossing first quarter in company’s history

  By Hafizah Osman | 02 May, 2011 17:19

  Business security solutions vendor, WatchGuard, reported another massive revenue growth in the first quarter, surpassing a record Q4 in 2010.

• Group used 30,000-node botnet in MasterCard, PayPal attacks

  By Robert McMillan | 10 December, 2010 06:44

  PayPal's website was hit late Wednesday by two botnets as online activists continued their Web attacks on companies that have severed their relationships with WikiLeaks.

• Botnet takedown may yield valuable data

  By Jeremy Kirk | 02 September, 2010 20:25

  Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam.

• Guilty plea after botnet tested with DDoS on ISP

  By Robert McMillan | 12 May, 2010 05:06

  The second man charged in 2006 computer attacks on The Planet and T35 Hosting has agreed to plead guilty.

• New Storm worm may not last long

  By Jeremy Kirk | 29 April, 2010 00:55

  A new variant of the Storm worm has emerged, but it does not appear to be as well-designed as its older relative, according to computer security researchers.

• Texas man to plead guilty to building botnet-for-hire

  By Robert McMillan | 29 April, 2010 07:23

  A Mesquite, Texas, man is set to plead guilty to training his 22,000-PC botnet on a local ISP -- just to show off its firepower to a potential customer.

• Zeus botnet exploits unpatched PDF flaw

  By Gregg Keizer | 16 April, 2010 06:11

  The Zeus botnet is now using an unpatched flaw in Adobe's PDF document format to infect users with malicious code, security researchers said today.

• After takedown, botnet-linked ISP Troyak resurfaces

  By Robert McMillan | 11 March, 2010 10:48

  Last week FBI Director Robert Mueller called the fight against hackers "the cyber equivalent of cat-and-mouse." On Wednesday security experts trying to take down the Zeus botnet got a taste of what he meant.

• Zeus botnet dealt a blow as ISP Troyak knocked out

  By Robert McMillan | 11 March, 2010 07:37

  Internet service providers linked to the notorious Zeus botnet have been taken down, knocking out a third of the command-and-control servers that run the network of hacked machines.

• FBI embeds cyber-investigators in Ukraine, Estonia

  By Robert McMillan | 05 March, 2010 06:59

  Hoping to catch cybercrooks, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has begun embedding agents with law enforcement agencies in Estonia, the Ukraine and the Netherlands.

• Spanish police take down massive Mariposa botnet

  By Robert McMillan | 03 March, 2010 12:01

  Spanish authorities have arrested three men in an operation that has crushed a major botnet network of infected computers.