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Delving Deeply Into a Bitcoin Botnet

22

May

2013

Bitcoin is a virtual decentralized currency that was created in 2009 by developer Satoshi Nakamoto, who described the currency in a paper. Recently Bitcoin has gotten lots of attention. In early 2013, the prices reached a high of US$265 per Bitcoin. The following chart shows the currency’s historical price:Because Bitcoin is a virtual currency and […]

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Shady RAT Is Not A Botnet

19

Aug

2011

Eugene Kaspersky has weighed in this week on Shady RAT, criticizing McAfee for exposing an operation that attacked a wide range of companies, governments and non-profit organizations across 14 countries and numerous sectors of the economy. Among other things, Kaspersky says he doesn’t believe it was a sophisticated attack and that our approach is alarmist. […]

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LinkedIn Security and The Rapture

24

May

2011

What do these two topics have in common? More than you might think. The obvious is that neither has arrived yet. There is no proof of existence of either, you have to take it on faith. Neither will be here tomorrow. take my word for that. A story at http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/23/uk-linkedin-security-idUSLNE74M02820110523 explains how dreadfully poor security […]

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