The Australian government on Monday recruited five Internet service providers to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch denial-of-service attacks from within the country. These ...

The term Botnet — a combination of robot and network — refers to a collection of computer applications, networks and software working autonomously. But some bots are behaving badly — sending spam, ...

Data leakage prevention might currently be the hottest IT security submarket, but vendors are also tuning up their product offerings to help customers ward off the presence of botnet-infected zombie ...

If you've been infected with malware lately, it might well have been to make your computer part of a botnet — a legion of zombie computers that hackers leverage remotely for big tasks like sending ...

Home computer users who unwittingly send out spam e-mail should be disconnected from the Internet until their machines are fixed, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission said on Tuesday. The FTC said it ...

Authorities in Singapore shut down a large network of around 10,000 robot, or “zombie,” computers this week, after technicians at Norwegian Internet service provider Telenor stumbled on the illicit ...

Five Internet Service Providers have been recruited by the government to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch DDoS attacks from Australia. The Minister for Communications, ...

Comcast's high-speed Internet subscribers have long been rumored to be an unusually persistent source of junk e-mail. Now someone from Comcast is confirming it. "We're the biggest spammer on the ...

An extraordinary behind-the-scenes struggle is taking place between computer security groups around the world and the brazen author of a malicious software program called Conficker. The program ...

The zombie computers used to send spam are coming back to life. Security vendors say spammers are reconnecting with hacked PCs used for sending spam as evidenced by a rising number of spam messages ...

Hoping to turn the tide on spam zombies, Microsoft has filed suit against entities it said used compromised PCs to send millions of junk e-mail messages. The company has identified 13 different ...