Web Security Review

A long standing botnet was closed with it’s manager arrested and subsequently charged with cyber-crimes leaving him to deal with a 5 year sentence of which he is to serve 2 in jail and the rest on conditional release. He will be allowed out on the conditions he would have limited access to computers and the internet, seemingly to follow the movie “Hackers”. This victory comes after a hosting firm based in California was ordered shut by the FTC and FBI after it was proven to have hosted malware spreading sites and spamming botnets. He even when as far as selling the services of his botnet, using “bots4sale” as a catch phrase to people he knew were going to use it for spamming of close to half a million computers the world over.
It comes as another victory in the war against cyber-crimes, many governments including the US are fighting day by day. The internet has seen a huge drop in spamming trends yet they are still there, managing to squeeze through ever tightening anti-spamming and filtering technology put in place to prevent them from getting in. Compared to a few years back, today’s spam can be called intermittent rather than a sure thing to expect as you open your mailbox.

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