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Competition May Be Driving Surge in Botnets, Spam

January 9th, 2008 · Comments Off

A price war may be at least partially responsible for the recent increase in spam and botnet activity on the Internet, a researcher suggested this week. The operators of Nugache, one of the Web’s most sophisticated emerging botnets, appear to be expanding their network and slashing prices to customers who want to use it to [...]

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Six ways to fight back against botnets

October 3rd, 2007 · Comments Off

1. Hire a Web-filtering service.
Web-filtering services are one of the best ways to fight bots. These services scan for Web sites exhibiting unusual behavior or known malicious activity and block those sites from users. Websense, Cyveillance and FaceTime Communications are examples. All monitor the Internet in real time to find Web sites [...]

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