Teen used botnets to push adware to hundreds of thousands of PCs
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A teenager has pleaded guilty in California to teaming up with another man to illegally install adware on hundreds of thousands of PCs through a series of botnets. He now faces up to a year and a half in prison.
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Hackers may be using banner ad servers to multiply the impact of the Internet Explorer virus, security experts warn.
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Huge crowds in social networking sites draw money-minded malware authors.
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Blog: While many people believe a 15-year old created the first computer virus in 1982, I'm not so quick to agree.
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A few weeks ago Candace Locklear's  office computer quietly started sending out dozens of instant  messages with photos attached that were infected with malicious  software.
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Software kits make it easy for novice hackers to earn a living by sending out malware-laden spam.
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A teenager was sentenced Friday to 1 1/2 years in prison for unleashing an Internet worm that crippled 48,000 computers in 2003.
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A worm was released recently designed to break into corporate computers running Symantec Corp's security software and make them part of its botnet.
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Malware installed by fake MySpace navigation bars has infected several thousand PCs, according to the SANS Institute.
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The first half of 2004 saw a huge increase in zombie PCs. Also called bots, their average numbers monitored by security firm Symantec rose between January and June from under 2,000 to more than 30,000 per day - peaking at 75,000 on one day.
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Malware was being deployed as a Trojan Horse that attempts to disable anti-virus programs, modify registry keys, download additional files, and log keystrokes when connecting to banking websites.
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Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic yesterday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.
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By TED BRIDIS Associated Press  WASHINGTON -- Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.
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Handling of images could allow an attacker to take over your PC.
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Networked multifunction devices share PC vulnerabilities to worms, hackers.
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As infected images plant back doors on PCs, experts see possibility of virus too.
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In 1988, a student unleashed a self-replicating worm that halted thousands of computers--and lit a fire under online security.