Botnet Stories for 2010

Raising a Botnet In Captivity 60
Operation Payback and Hactivism 101 423
Has Progress Been Made In Fighting DDoS Attacks? 206
'Anonymous' WikiLeaks Proponents Not So Anonymous 390
Researchers Tracking Emerging 'Darkness' Botnet 85
A Third of World's Spam From One Russian Man 233
Aussie Gov't Decides ISPs Aren't Responsible For Infected Computers 129
50 ISPs Harbor Half of All Infected Machines 140
Researchers Take Down Koobface Servers 35
Former Student Gets 30 Months For Political DDoS Attacks 486
Massive DDoS Cuts Myanmar Off From Net 149
Bredolab Botnet Taken Down 187
Rise of the Small Botnet 61
Iranian Cyber Army Moves Into Botnet Renting 63
Hacker Business Models 96
Microsoft Looks To Courts For Botnet Takedowns 93
US Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country 121
Should ISPs Cut Off Bot-infected Users? 486
Comcast Warns Customers Suspected of Bot Infection 196
Software Theft a Problem For Actual Thieves, Too 152
US, NY Bust 92 Mules In 'ZeuS Trojan' Crime Ring 97
Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet 129
Large Zeus Botnet Used For Financial Fraud 68
Suspected Mariposa Botnet Creator Arrested 95
Attackers Using Social Networks For Botnet Control 40
Photo Kiosks Infecting Customers' USB Devices 288
Botnets Using Ubiquity For Security 95
Prosecuting DDoS Attacks? 164
Symantec Finds Server Containing 44 Million Stolen Gaming Credentials 146
Mariposa Botmasters Sought Real Jobs After Arrest 92
Texas Man Pleads Guilty To Building Botnet-For-Hire 95
A Year's Further Research On an Espionage Network 61
Seeking Competitive Advantage, For Malware 39
Microsoft Fuzzing Botnet Finds 1,800 Office Bugs 111
The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets 116
How To Avoid a Botnet Infection? 396
Naming and Shaming "Bad" ISPs 79
Memory Cards of 3,000 Phones Infected By Malware 63
Waledac Botnet Now Completely Offline, Experts Say 91
The Coming Botnet Stock Exchange 105
Malware Authors Learn Market Segmentation From the Best 49
Zeus Botnet Down But Not Out 67
Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out 156
HTC Android Phones Found With Malware Pre-Installed 158
Microsoft Secretly Beheads Notorious Waledac Botnet 381
Chuck Norris Attacks Linux-Based Routers, Modems 193
Operation Titstorm Hits the Streets 458
Anonymous Speaks About Australian Gov't. Attacks 235
New Russian Botnet Tries To Kill Rivals 136

"And remember: Evil will always prevail, because Good is dumb." -- Spaceballs