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<title><![CDATA[Microsoft and feds bring down spam giant Rustock]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Mar 2011 07:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Rustock, purveyor of more e-mail spam than any other network in the world, was felled last week by Microsoft and federal law enforcement agents. A lawsuit by Microsoft that was unsealed at the company's request late today triggered several coordinated raids last Wednesday that took down Rustock, a botnet that infected millions of computers with malicious code in order to turn them into a massive spam-sending network.&quot;This botnet is estimated to have approximately a million infected computers operating under its control and has been known to be capable of sending billions of spam mails every day,&quot; Richard Boscovich, senior attorney in the Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit, wrote in a blog post today.The Wall Street Journal first reported that it was Microsoft's digital crimes unit, working in concert with U.S. marshals, that raided seven hosting facilities across the country and seized the command-and-control machines that ran the network. Those are the servers that send instructions to the fleet of infected computers to dish out spam messages hawking such items as phony lottery scams and fake and potentially dangerous prescription drugs.The takedown was known internally as Operation b107.Hard drives seized yesterday at a hosting facility in Kansas City, Mo.(Credit:Microsoft)Shutting down Rustock could put a huge dent in spam worldwide. Tech security giant Symantec estimated last year that Rustock was responsible for 39 percent of the world's spam. Global spam levels dropped 12 percent after Dutch authorities took down a Trojan horse named Bredolab last November.Rustock's demise surprised the cybersecurity community last week, which often works in unison to corral spammers. According to an earlier Journal blog post, spam monitors didn't know why the botnet's activity halted. It was clear at the time that the effort was coordinated and complete.Microsoft's digital crimes unit has long worked with law enforcement to track down and eliminate spammers, botnets, and other malicious code creators. Government authorities rarely have the resources to spend on the investigations, something Microsoft willingly finances since it has a vested interest in keeping people e-mailing.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Ashton Kutcher suffers Twitter hack attack]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>marbeterkosherfoodvip</dc:creator>
<category>Marketing and advertising</category>
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<description><![CDATA[This could be an example of being punk'd. Or even meta-punk'd.But strange tweets have begun to appear on Ashton Kutcher's Twitter feed during the TED conference. And he seems to have done nothing about them.The first tweet read: &quot;&quot;Ashton, you've been Punk'd. This account is not secure. Dude, where's my SSL&quot;SSL--so my fallback engineering encyclopedia, Steve, tells me--stands for Secure Sockets Layer, something that many of those in the know believe Facebook and Twitter should use as a standard.However, the phantom tweeter doesn't appeared to have stopped there. He or she added another message: &quot;P.S. This is for those young protesters around the world who deserve not to have their Facebook &amp; Twitter accounts hacked like this. SSL.&quot;(Credit:Screenshot: Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)Naturally, if you're going to go all Banksy to get your message across, the Twitter account of a famous actor with more than 6 million followers is the equivalent of a billboard on Sunset Boulevard.As yet, no one has taken responsibility for this guerrilla act. However, RedWriteWeb reports that it must have been one of the other attendees at TED, the conference at which everyone knows the future and wishes everyone else would just listen.Those pesky shared Wi-Fi networks can be more insecure than your average actor. Worse, it seems that Twitter might be eminently hackable too. I am most concerned, though, that this alleged miscreant found it so easy to stage a militant coup on Kutcher's Twitter. What else might he or she be able to access in Kutcher's no doubt voluminous digital presence Will we soon see images of Mrs. Kutcher's--aka Demi Moore's--bottom on display for all to see No, wait, Kutcher already did that himself.Still, this seems to be a dark day for identity burglary. Will the alleged thieves come clean Will they make a speech about it at TED tomorrow Could they be disaffected extras from &quot;That 70s Show&quot; One can only hope that everything will soon be revealed. Preferably on Twitter. Or perhaps Kutcher's Facebook page, which is currently still intact. At least I think it is. It's not always that easy to tell.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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