Website review: Zombie Computers Decried As Imminen...
TapwaterJ discovered this in Computer Security
•2 reviews since Apr 9, 2008
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•blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/zombie-comp...
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billso rated 3 months ago- Chertoff isn't far from the truth here. Bots can be found in many homes and small businesses in the US. Windows machines are the most vulnerable, especially if they have no firewall or security software. P2P, file sharing, IM and free software are common ways to convert a computer into a zombie. It only takes a few moments for a naive or distracted user to take a criminal's bait, click a link or two and turn their computer into a zombie. I've had several friends who had no idea their computer had been compromised. They just thought their computer had gotten slow. When I show them the root kits, viruses and other problems on their PC, some of them still do not understand what they've done.
- GabriellePaijit rated 3 months ago
- From Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff speaks about computer security at the RSA Conference on information security in San Francisco, Tuesday, April 8, 2008. AP Photo/Paul Sakuma From the Report: Today's botnet herders have hundreds of thousands of computers at their command and use technically sophisticated ways to hide their headquarters, making it easy for them to make millions from spam and credit card theft. They can also be used to direct floods of fake traffic at a targeted website in order to bring down a rival, extract protection money or less frequently, used to make a political point in the case of attacks on Estonia and the Church of Scientology.
