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Fix For Recent WordPress Brute Force Attack Is Easier Than You Think
04/14/2013, Over the past couple of days it has been widely reported that WordPress based sites are being targeted by a massive brute force attack, one that is supposedly backed by a botnet with over 90,000 IP addresses. The nature of [...]
Notorious Cyberspy Caught By His Own Malware
10/30/2012, The nation of Georgia discovered a botnet trying to steal sensitive government documents, and what did they do? They gave the cyber-spy a taste of his own medicine, infecting his computer with the very same software he was targeting governments [...]
Google disputes claims of Android botnet
07/09/2012, Last week, a Microsoft researcher claimed to have discovered an Android botnet, but it looks like it might not exist after all. According to a statement from Google, their analysis suggests that spammers are using infected computers and a fake [...]