[LINK] Dramatic rise in botnet-controlled PCs

[Rick Welykochy]

George Bray wrote:

> Tech review with Peter Marks - Trojan attacks
> 
> A couple of weeks ago we looked at cyber attacks and how and why they take
> place. That followed some spectacular defacing of the parliamentary websites
> of Georgia, with some people pointing the finger at Russia. Breakfast's
> technology editor, Peter Marks, has some practical tips on protecting your
> home PC from malicious software and trojan attacks.
> 
> http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2008/2348610.htm

Interesting report. Five trojans downloaded onto your computer
just by visiting a fake link to the Free Tibet Movement. And now
Firefox will optionally vet every page it visits by first looking
it up in the Google trojan database.

It's enough to make Tim Berners-Lee weep into his morning cuppa.

Remember when the web consisted only of HTML? No Javascript, no
plug-ins, no Java and no client-side code execution except the
rendering of the HTML?

cheers
rickw


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