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Conficker expectedly chaos-free as it activates across world

April 01, 2009

Right on schedule, the latest variant of the Conficker worm awoke Wednesday, querying hundreds of new URLs for instructions on what to do next. But, as most experts predicted, there were no orders to be had, and the estimated millions of machines infected by the malware remain in standby mode.
 

Supreme Court: Spammer conviction null

March 31, 2009

Because the Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider an appeal from the state of Virginia to overturn a ruling that the state's anti-spam law was unconstitutional, Jeremy Jaynes' conviction will not be reinstated. Jaynes had been sentenced to nine years for spamming AOL users in 2004. He is still in prison for an unrelated crime. According to the Associated Press, Virginia's attorney general will ask the state's General Assembly to rewrite the law. — CAM
 

GhostNet spy network phishes international victims

March 30, 2009

The recently uncovered cyberespionage network named GhostNet made use of phishing malware to attack the nearly 1,300 computers that are said to have been compromised by servers traced to China.
 

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Spam back up to pre-McColo levels

March 31, 2009

Following the highly publicized takedown of the McColo web-hosting company last November, worldwide spam levels dropped by around 70 percent. But four months later, spam is now back up to pre-McColo levels, according to the latest figures from Google's Postini.
 

New variant of RSPlug Mac trojan

March 30, 2009

A new variant of the RSPlug trojan, which targets Apple machines, was recently discovered in the wild, but quickly was fixed.
 

Mr. President, sew up our cyberseams

Chris Schwartzbauer, Shavlik Technologies April 01, 2009

What happens if the citizens of the United States start losing faith in our government's ability to protect critical data?
 

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Randy Rosenbaum, CPISM, product marketing manager, Alert Logic
Steve Smith, product manager, Alert Logic

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