The ghosts and ghouls of October have come and gone, but the dangers lurking behind virtual walls have hardly disappeared. The threat of zombie bots is real, and it exists 365 days out of the year.

Internet service provider 3FN has been ordered out of business by a district court on advice and request of the Federal Trade Commission. It is accused of a variety of illegal activities. It’s been ...

Four million zombies have been orphaned from their now-dead botnet; six suspects have been arrested in Estonia. Operation Ghost Click has acted against various malware-mediated frauds and other crime.

Security experts are beginning to see a pattern in cybercrimes. According to communications firm Energis, online crime appears to be occurring in cyclical patterns related to the creation of ...

Botnets are networks of computers taken hostage by malware that controls them and makes them send spam and act in other nefarious ways. They’re growing in size, number and impact. A botnet may be ...

In this NetSeminar, Everything Channel Senior Editor Kevin McLaughlin will look at the damage botnets can cause and provide a channel-centric point of view on what steps companies can take to protect ...

Microsoft has released its semi-annual summary of security problems, solutions, insights, and recommendations known as the Security Intelligence Report, which is a distillation of the experiences from ...

Evidence collected from a website that was recently used to flood U.S. banks with junk traffic suggests that the people behind the ongoing DDoS attack campaign against U.S. financial institutions — ...