A botnet used solely to send junk e-mail promoting penis enlargement products has taken over from the Storm botnet as the most prolific sender of spam, according to security researchers.
The man in charge of IT security for the US Homeland Security department may lose his job after the revelations that his department's IT systems have misconfigured firewalls, suspicious botnet activity, trojans and virus infections.
New Zealand Police this week swooped on an alleged botnet operator in New Zealand, who the FBI claims had illegal control over one million computers.
Cybercrooks who rig Web sites to break into PCs are getting better at hiding their malicious code, a security expert said this week.
Last week likely marked the largest proliferation of e-mail virus attacks in more than a year, according to security company Postini.
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In final instalment of 'Securing Microsoft', Ina Fried looks at the next generation of security threats. With Microsoft now outspending everyone with their massive security budget, will it be enough to stop ever more sophisticated security threats?
Cisco security maven John Stewart says never mind the OS -- attackers are after the apps, from IM to Office.
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