FBI cracks International Bot Network !

FBI cracks International Bot Network ! The Department of Justice and FBI declared that it has cracked a network of hackers, who have infected almost 2 million computers with a harmful "bot" program, Coreflood that steals private and monetary data from computers. Identified as a "bot" network- as...

The Root of the Botnet Epidemic

Over the course of a few days in February 2000, a lone hacker was able to bring some of the Web’s larger sites to their knees, using just a few dozen machines and some relatively primitive software to cripple Yahoo, eBay, Etrade, Amazon, ZDnet and others for hours at a time. No one knew it at the...

GhostNet shows extent of online spying

As a result of some tremendous work done by researchers at the University of Toronto, we now know that there is an enormous network of compromised machines in more than 100 countries around the world, many of them in government agencies, embassies and other sensitive locations. The network has it...

[SECURITY] Some Debian Project machines have been compromised

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/ Some Debian Project machines compromised [email protected] November 21st, 2003 [email protected] -...

[SECURITY] Some Debian Project machines have been compromised

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory http://www.debian.org/security/ Some Debian Project machines compromised [email protected] November 21st, 2003 [email protected] -...