Botnet Reported Loose in Fortune 100

Monday, September 28th, 2009 | Filed under Cyberthreats | Posted by admin

“Last week Canadian security vendor Defence Intelligence reported that half the Fortune 100 companies have been compromised by a botnet they dubbed Mariposa. Discovered in May, Mariposa appears to have been built using the readily available butterfly bot kit. While the afflicted among the Fortune 100 haven’t stepped forward to corroborate this claim, the threat is definitely real.”

(Source: Botnet Reported Loose in Fortune 100 – Security Watch)

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kawana: sounds like censorship to me! seems like the U.S. is going to become like China. A police state!!!
NoxiousKarn: So this becomes an issue if you don’t safe guard your data before uploading it. I keep some data...
lyecdevf: From the beginning I was some what sceptical about dropbox but since all the geeks thought it was a great...
dbbuilder: interesting, someone would target the fed computer system….!
josh: Fuck the federal reserve its about time someone takes the initiative to take them out….

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