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Mac's are Controlling Windows Systems

“What huh? Another platform evangelist?”, I can hear you ask. No, don’t worry, although, with the lack of realism some computers owners you might have to worry.

Mac OSX users long thought they were immune to attacks targeting their systems. This year however has seen quiet a few attacks towards OSX systems that opened the eyes of many ‘into’ OSX. In November Apple patched 31 vulnerabilities including a 0-day exploit.

Since then, more vulnerabilities have been found, including malware trying to exploit these.

For these Mac OSX users there is still something positive to be found in systems recently found infected and abused by such malware however. The systems in question were being used to host an IRC server which in turn was being used to control other infected machines, yes you guessed it already, which are computers using Windows as the OS.

Source: ZDNet

SorceryNet Celebrates its 10th Year Anniversary

“I am contacting you to make you aware that the 28th of December will be SorceryNet’s 10th year anniversary” network director Daniel Smith said to IRCJunkie. “To mark the special occasion we have decided to hold a logo contest.”

Sorcery is currently ranked as the 37th network on SearchIRC.

More details about the contest can be found here. Participants can sent in their artwork up until the 9th of January, so no hurries!

British ISP Helps Customers Keeping Their PC Clean

British ISP British Telecom implemented a new system where they will actively search and clean PCs from customers who have been found sending spam, with extra care to those who are believed to be a part of zombie networks which are also used in DDoS attacks.

Once such a system have been found the ISP either helps the customer to clean their system, or terminates the account, depending on whether the customer knowingly sent spam, or has been infected by malicious software.