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New Mega-Botnet Discovered
yahoi writes "According to the DarkReading article, 'Researchers have discovered a major botnet operating out of the Ukraine that has infected 1.9 million machines, including large corporate and government PCs mainly in the US. The botnet, which appears to be larger than the infamous Storm botnet was in its heyday, has infected machines from some 77 government-owned domains — 51 of which are in the US government. Researchers from Finjan who found the botnet say it's controlled by six individuals, and includes machines in major banks.'"
Can they fix the government? Infect AIG and get our money back?
Maybe this isn't such a bad thing after all.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
large corporate and government PCs
So small ones are mostly safe.
THL phish sticks
Get Abby & the whole NCIS crew on the job. Everyone know a goth hacker chick will solve it!
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A computer worm that spreads through low security networks, memory sticks, and PCs without the latest security updates is posing a growing threat to users blitheringly stupid enough to still think Windows is not ridiculously and unfixably insecure by design.
Despite many years' warnings that Microsoft regards security as a marketing problem and has only ever done the absolute minimum it can get away with, millions of users who click on any rubbish they see in the hope of pictures of female tennis stars having wardrobe malfunctions still fail to believe that taking Windows out on the Internet is like standing bent over in the street in downtown Gomorrah, naked, arse greased up and carrying a flashing neon sign saying "COME AND GET IT."
Microsoft cannot believe people have not applied the patch for the problem, just because they keep trying to use Windows Genuine Advantage to break legally-bought systems. "Don't they trust us?" sobbed marketing marketer Steve Ballmer.
Millions of smug Mac users and the four hundred smug Linux users pointed and laughed, having long given up trying to convince their Windows-using friends to see sense. "There's a reason the Unix system on Mac OS X is called Darwin," said appallingly smug Mac user Arty Phagge.
"It can't be stupid if everyone else runs it," said Windows user Joe Beleaguered, who had lost all his email, business files, MP3s and porn again. "Macs cost more than Windows PCs."
"Yes," said Phagge. "Yes, they do."
Ubuntu Linux developer Hiram Nerdboy frantically tried to get our attention about something or other, but we can't say we care.
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> The big papers detailing botnets never provide enough details to know
> if *I* screwed up the internet.
You did and we'll never forgive you! :-)
I am on it, you see I have this great product called Antivirus 2009, don't worry, I have sent out over 2 billion emails detailing its advantages to people.
Also, I have these pills...
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Thats because its normally assumed ;)
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Mega Botnet?!?!
He is Legend.
Researchers from Finjan who found the botnet say it's controlled by six individuals,
We should be able to shut this one down with one clip in a .45.
Have gnu, will travel.
Anybody have any idea how this type of infection happens? I.e does a user simply visit the site,
Exactly!
IE. A user simply visits a site....(fixed the punctuation for you).
Have gnu, will travel.