I decided to look a the sources of postcard spams related to Peacomm that I had measured. I honestly expected less variance in the arrival dates and a lot more variance in the download locations. I don’t see any patterns like “Don’t spam on a weekend” afoot here, or anything suggesting they’re avoiding any specific [...]
A quarter century of malware. You’d think we would have had this problem licked by now, yeah? No, not even close. Self replicating code was first theorized in 1949, the dawn of the computing age, and appeared in the wild around the early 1980s. The fundamental theories on computer viruses were worked out by Fred [...]
In an article yesterday entitled A glitch in the Matrix, or a hungry exploit?, reporters at The Register were asking about Internet outages. This article seems to suggest that TCP port 5901 (VNC) scanning is to blame. VNC is Virtual Network Computing, a way of accessing one’s PC from another using simple software. It’s much [...]
So, you’ve read plenty about when botnets attack. You’ve also seen plenty about when spambots attack, though it’s usually only in the form of spam email flooding in the course of spambot offspring performing the functions for which their creator intended. There’s even been plenty of press about when Botnets Battle Over Turf, [...]
