Information Protection and Security

People often wonder what it takes to shut down a botnet. Here are the key steps, which apply to “traditional” botnets, which don’t rely heavily on peer-to-peer protocols for their command and control (C&C) implementation.
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Cyber thieves on Thursday began blasting out millions of e-mails impersonating NACHA - The Electronic Payments Association, a not-for-profit group that develops operating rules for organizations that handle electronic payments, from payroll direct deposits to online bill pay services.

Cyber-criminals have started preying on Verizon Wireless customers, sending out spam e-mail messages that say their accounts are over the limit and offering them a "balance checker" program to review their payments.

 
From the beginning, the profitability and viability of popular Facebook social networking games Mafia Wars and Farmville were predicated on the backs of scams, boasts Zynga CEO Mark Pincus in this video. "I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues," he crows in the clip to a gathered bunch of fellow scumbag app developers.
 

Though the ikee worm and other recent incidents have highlighted security risks facing users of jailbroken iPhones, the question remains: If you are using a jailbroken iPhone, just how insecure is it and what can you do about it?
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Live data gathered from real enterprise networks shows major presence of Twitter, Facebook, SharePoint raises security concerns.

Researchers show how Adobe Flash can be exploited in browsers when victim visits sites that accept user-generated content.
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