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New Botnet Dwarfs Storm
ancientribe writes "Storm is no longer the world's largest botnet: Researchers at Damballa have discovered Kraken, a botnet of 400,000 zombies — twice the size of Storm. But even more disturbing is that it has infected machines at 50 of the Fortune 500, and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running antivirus software. Kraken appears to be evading detection by a combination of clever obfuscation techniques that hinder its detection and analysis by researchers."
Forbid Windows OSs from running in the USA because it's a defacto tool for terrorism.
... the botnet detects you!
Less than 1%.
They should just ban that .exe image file format. It's nothing but trouble. It doesn't even always reproduce the image!
This is old news. We knew about this back in 1830:
Below the thunders of the upper deep;
Far far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous grot and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the slumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge seaworms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
""We know the picture... ends in an .exe, which is not shown" to the user, Royal says."
.exe it isn't a picture, you shouldn't keep calling it one.
If it ends in
Two words: hardware firewall.
Ok 2 more words: watchfor blinkenlights.
I try. *bow*
Seven Days with Ubuntu Unity
I've tried to run several exploits under WINE, only to have them crash.
:P
The WINE developers really need to work on the compatibility...
Beware the Botnet Dwarfs!
FTA: "The primary C&C servers are hosted in France, Russia, and the U.S., according to Damballa."
The new Axis of Evil?
Heh, I think the size of this botnet is more than the total number of Solaris users to begin with.
Har?
Just browse pr0n until you come across one of those 'your pc is infected' warnings, then use their free tool. Works every time.
... and God just builds a better idiot.
A great deal of the problem here isn't necessarily Windows, it's the people who use it. In an attempt to make its operating system easier for the idiot to use, Microsoft has added "features" that increase the vulnerability as well, particularly the "I'm-ok-you're-ok-can't-we-all-just-get-along-and- share-our-deepest-darkest-secrets" design philosophy that's behind so much of the Windows experience.
But the vast majority of Unwashed Humanity shouldn't even be using a *light switch*, nevermind a computer! Even otherwise very intelligent people are so completely clueless when it comes to things that come to them in email and on web sites. I swear, if I sent out an email asking people to cut out their large intestine and email me a scan of its contents, most of them would happily do it, and thank me for the privilege.
I tell my family to follow two rules:
1. Everything you read on the internet and in email is a complete and utter lie from someone you do not know, which will steal all your money, rot your brain, and leave you (male or female) with an unwanted love child. You should completely delete all email before reading.
2. See Rule #1.
Microsoft advocates Trustworthy Computing. I recommend Paranoid Computing instead, because *nobody* can be trusted!
"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." --Senator Carl Schurz (1872)
Blast! Foiled again!
Execute? [Y/N] _
Windoze suxxors! It and people who use it should not be allowed on the interweb! They should all be using [insert linux distro] Linux! Then, they wouldn't have this problem!
Don't underestimate me.. I've performed WAY more complex operations than that in order to obtain free porn.