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Teen bot herder pleads guilty in NZ

An 18-year-old bot herder from New Zealand plead guilty on Monday to six charges resulting from a failed botnet upgrade that led to a denial-of-service attack on the University of Pennsylvania. Read more »

Zombie PCs being sent to steal IDs

Bot nets, collections of compromised computers controlled by a single person or group, have become more pervasive and increasingly focused on identity theft and installing spyware, according to a Honeynet Project report. Read more »

NAB floats denial-of-service threats to the cloud

Thanks to bots and the rise of financially-driven cybercrime, the menace of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are too real to ignore -- defending against such attacks however is driving collaboration between ISPs and top tier telcos to push security to the cloud. Read more »

Microsoft offers Zotob removal tool

Microsoft on Wednesday made available a free software tool to help victims of the worms that are currently attacking Windows computers clean their systems. Read more »

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