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...and the virus quickly infected large swathes of the Ealing council's network. The network had to be shut down, infected PCs were rebuilt, and 200 devices had to be replaced. Some services took weeks to re-instate, leaving Ealing with... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/09/04/237562/virus-attack-costs-ealing-council-500000.htm

...can be picked up for as little as $5 in other countries, but mainly in the Far East. "These batches of 1,000 infected PCs will be resold in the market by the buyer," said Finjan. "An infected machine is no longer a one-time asset... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/06/18/236495/users-oblivious-as-criminals-sell-access-to-thousands-of.htm

...China. One of the websites in the group belongs to a Chinese governmental office. The research found that these infected PCs are stealing data from organisations. Once the user's PC has been infected the Trojan starts to send data to other... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/12/06/228514/businesses-at-risk-from-hacker-attacks-warns-finjan.htm

...department switched off hubs that distributed network messages to each PC. They also put in place scripts to prevent infected PCs accessing the network. But these proved ineffective when large numbers of staff tried to log in the following morning... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/12/04/233735/how-mytob-caused-havoc-in-the-nhs.htm

...the company’s servers in southern Italy were hit by a massive denial of service attack launched from thousands of infected PCs controlled by the hacking group. The company, which had a 2Mbytes line, increased its line capacity to 10Mbytes... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/09/27/218731/airline-foils-hackers-with-latest-high-tech-defences.htm

...Microsoft is investigating a zero-day attack affecting Internet Explorer 7.0, which could enable a hacker to take over infected PCs. Microsoft said, "At this time, we are aware only of limited attacks that attempt to use this vulnerability... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/12/11/233847/ie7-zero-day-attack-hacked-sites-infect-pcs.htm

...to cause disruption to internet users, said Witt. Distributed denial of service attacks make use of networks of infected PCs, known as zombies, to bombard the targeted computer systems with messages designed to bring them to a halt. Witt... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/02/08/221692/fbi-opens-probe-into-massive-denial-of-service-attack.htm

...there is no central "mothership" to detect and keep off the internet. Once the botnet is set up, the owners can seed infected PCs with a malcode program to capture keystrokes, copy, transmit or delete files. Botnets can be hired by anybody... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/02/21/229515/storm-botnet-takes-advantage-of-valentines-day.htm

...worms, is purpose-built to hijack users’ machines; and a single Trojan can easily be found on many thousands of infected PCs. Malicious code may be embedded in e-mail, injected into fake software packs, or placed on ‘grey-zone’ web... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/13/238780/White-paper-Comprehensive-protection-from-threats-of-today-and.htm

...Phishing Thursday 19 November 2009 12:00 Recently, malicious attacks involving tens of thousands of virus-infected PCs worldwide have targeted majororganizations such as Microsoft, Google, Yahoo!, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service... http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/11/17/239133/White-paper-best-practice-on-Phishing.htm

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...contribute share a tip, submit a link, add something new home » security » news Software shields online banking on infected PCs by Jeremy Kirk Be the first to comment | I like it! More » on this topic Microsoft re-patches last... http://www.itworld.com/security/83368/software-shields-online-banking-infected-pcs