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Apple iPad Stress Test @ PCWorld
Author: Markus Smith
The guys over at PCWorld stress test the new Apple iPad www.pcworld.com thepcreport.net
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Twitters Botnet Controller
Author: William Miller
This seems to be big news lately but it doesn’t surprise me much. Someone that I follow on Twitter actually commented in February that they were seeing patterns like this. See http://twitter.com/ron_mills/status/1189418872
Unfortunately ron_mills didn’t reference what patterns he was seeing but he called it.
Now lets see if BotTrax is on the money too with the account takeover scenario. http://www.bottrax.com/?p=51
Basically the botnet controller that was recently unveiled works by having infected computers monitor Twitter feeds to take specific actions based on the tweet. In the past instructions were generally sent through IRC, and a whole bunch of other methods. Lets just add Twitter to the list:
Obviously there are more but just think about it this way, any way you can communicate with a system can be used to issue commands remotely if the system is vulnerable.
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