Redmond offers US$250,000 bounty for Rustock heads
Microsoft will offer US$250,000 (AU$236,000) for information that leads to the identification, arrest and criminal convictions of the leaders of the Rustock botnet.
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Rustock botnet was busy in Australia
While Microsoft observed a larger than 60 per cent fall in the number of Asian and Europen IP addresses contacting its Rustock sinkhole, the number for Australia dropped between 30 to 40 per cent, according to Microsoft’s Malware Protection Center figures. Australian reductions were similar to figures recorded for the US.
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Drug spam rules, thanks to WikiPharmacy: Symantec
Advertising for pharmaceuticals is still the most common type of spam globally, despite a 24 percentage point drop in share since the end of 2010. The new fake online pharmacy brand WikiPharmacy is to blame, says Symantec.
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