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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 »
US 'botmaster' faces up to 60 years prison
A Los Angeles man is facing up to 60 years in prison and fines of up to US$1.75 million after admitting to infecting at least 250,000 PCs with information-stealing malware. Read more »
Bots for Sony CD software spotted online
A first wave of malicious software written to piggyback on Sony BMG Music Entertainment CD copy protection tools has been spotted online, computer security companies said Thursday in the United States. Read more »
Botnets on mobile phones in 2009?
About 15 per cent of all online computers are infected with bots, says a new report on emerging threats for 2009 from Georgia Tech Information Security Center. Read more »
MySQL worm halted
A worm exploiting weak database passwords on Windows computers had essentially stopped spreading on Friday, after the systems infected with the program were cut off from the control of several central computers. 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 »
Spammers use YouTube to spread Storm worm
In yet another twist to the Storm worm menace, spammers are using a fake YouTube site to trick users into downloading the malicious code. Read more »
'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says
The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net"--a large network of zombified home PCs according to Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies. Read more »
Newest Sasser worm a greater danger
A newer, better-built version of the Sasser worm has boosted the infectiousness of the original, spreading to more than 10,000 computers over the weekend, antivirus company Symantec said on Monday. Read more »
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
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