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The PC Doctor wrote an intriguing post today on
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Twitter has been spammed, DDoS’ed, and knocked offline, and now it has been used as the command center for a botnet. A researcher last week was looking for clues about the massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on Twitter found a Twitter profile that was being used to send updates and malware to bots in an […]

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Darknet wrote an intriguing post today on
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Ah Twitter in the news again, the bad guys sure do keep up with new trends. After being taken offline for a while by a Joejob DDoS attack Twitter is in the news again – this time it’s being used as the command channel for a Botnet.
The normal method for controlling Botnets is via an […]

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Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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Before I get started with this article, I would just quickly like to apologize for the lack of updates the past few weeks on the site. I have been in the middle of moving into my new location and it seemed that  the apartment complex was still trying to get the internet all setup when […]

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Darknet wrote an intriguing post today on
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Both Facebook and Twitter were hit with pretty severe DDoS attacks rendering them useless and unavailable to the majority of users.
The thing is it seems like it wasn’t a traditional network based botnet style DDoS attack, but a ‘joejob‘ attack where spam is sent out containing a link and the users clicking on the link […]

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Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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Shortened URLs are great for character-conscious Tweeters, marketers who want to track Web site visitors, and even perhaps an opportunity for venture capitalists who are investing in companies such as Bit.ly.
But they are also providing a boon to spammers.
MessageLabs, a division of Symantec, said today the presence of shortened URLs in spam had skyrocketed over the […]

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Andrew wrote an intriguing post today on
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It’s a long weekend and you’re happy because you’ll get to spend the next three days with your family. You left the office in an excited mood but as the cab was approaching home, you suddenly realized that you forgot to shut down the Office PC. Oops!
It’s a sinking feeling because there’re so many confidential […]

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