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    More than a million PCs under the control of spammers are threatening the US national security, its economy and its information infrastructure, according to the FBI.

  • Bots may get cloak of encryption

    In their quest to retain control over hijacked PCs, cybercriminals will add encryption to their malicious software to avoid detection and removal, one expert predicted Monday in the United States.

  • AOL IM bot cloaked in encryption

    America Online on Monday said it is blocking malicious links tied to a recently discovered bot that uses encryption to increase the range of its targets and make eradication more difficult.

  • Spying worm spread by MSN Messenger, AIM

    Malware writers continue to pound users of Microsoft's MSN Messenger and AOL's Instant Messenger services with malicious messages containing links that could infect the victim's computer with a Trojan horse or dangerous worm.

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    You can't hear them and you can't see them, but be warned, bots are all around us and they do have a search-and-destroy attitude that could be the death of your business.

  • ISPs versus the zombies

    If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect -- and the health of the Net itself could suffer.

  • Researchers infiltrate denial of service networks

    Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.

  • Part I: Most popular security issues

    Executives under arrest, charging for e-mail, rogue staff, e-mail spoofing, spyware: it's all here in your first raft of questions to our panel of experts. Additional reading: Beat malware with Firefox, others

  • How to slam spam

    If we're losing the battle against spam, how can we win the war? In this special report, ZDNet Australia presents a comprehensive resource centre for IT professionals battling spam.

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