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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 03:46 PM EDT |
Its takes a long time and hard work to get legally sufficient evidence
to seize the C&C servers from the botnet. It takes orders of magnitude
more time and effort to clean up the bots. The many thousands of bots
are still out there, still infected, and will attempt to call home. When
home doesn't answer they will send out a beacon call, and anybody
listening can harvest them for a new botnet.
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| Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 04:16 PM EDT |
Time for a message from our sponsor? In the article it
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Microsoft said.
You mean they are hereby openly admitting that older
versions of Windows were full of vulnerabilities? Then they
should take
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, June 06 2013 @ 06:48 PM EDT |
I see that although they took down the botnets, there were no arrests, and so
the perps will likely start anew. So Microsoft advises to avoid being snared
again, you should upgrade to the latest version of windows...
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