arstechnica.com — The Torpig botnet was hijacked by the good guys for ten days earlier this year before its controllers issued an update and took the botnet back. During that time, however, researchers were able to gain a glimpse into the kind of information the botnet gathers as well as the behavior of Internet users who are prone to malware infections.
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1packerMay 5, 2009
I use a master password for firefox and had always assumed that was a secure way to store them. Does anyone know if people have found a way to compromise those short of brute force, or are all of these passwords just going to people that are too dumb to protect all their passwords with another one?
Closed AccountMay 5, 2009
Keep talking guys, this is the most interesting thing I've read today.
tenoqMay 6, 2009
Yeah, because doing a Windows Update never broke anything!/s
steamintmannMay 14, 2009
What the f**k are you talking about?
wafflesidMay 15, 2009
What the f**k? It may be dig, but god damn, you still gotta talk some form of coherent English. Companies had to PIEI accidentally the whole windows
kwhatcherJul 20, 2009
Well if we all just stopped allowing malware to run then it wouldn't be an issue. Preventing it from ever executing a singe line binary is the key. Seams simple enough once you understand the concept. Just check out <a class="user" href="http://digg.com/d1xAZU">http://digg.com/d1xAZU</a>