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from the in-search-of-electronic-"brains!" dept.
Microsoft takes down millions of zombie bots:
Microsoft has said it was part of a team that dismantled an international network of zombie bots.
The network call Necurs infected over nine million computers and one of the world's largest botnets.
Necurs was responsible for multiple criminal scams including stealing personal information and sending fake pharmaceutical emails.
[...] Tom Burt, Microsoft's vice-president for customer security and trust, said in a blog post that the takedown of Necurs was the result of eight years of planning and co-ordination with partners in 35 countries.
He wrote that the steps taken will "ensure the criminals behind this network are no longer able to use key elements of its infrastructure to execute cyber-attacks."
[...] Necurs first appeared in 2012.
It is believed to have had a network of more than nine million zombie computers.
To grow this network Necurs used a domain generation algorithm that created random domain names the group turned into websites. It used these sites to send instructions to its army of infected computers.
Microsoft and its partners were able to crack Necurs' algorithm and predict what domain names it would be using in the months ahead and block them.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 11 2020, @03:48PM (3 children)
As for Windows 15, I think they've said it will forever be Windows 10 going forward.
Just as Macintosh is OS X forever and ever.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Wednesday March 11 2020, @05:00PM
Or...at least until there's a new COO and changes on the BOD.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(Score: 2) by Snow on Wednesday March 11 2020, @05:02PM (1 child)
Yeah. OSX at least has cool names like Leopard, or Snow Leopard or tiger, or lion or cheetah.
Win10 has 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909. How boring is that?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 11 2020, @08:25PM
The OS X code names were cute at first, but quickly became a PITA. Which is newer, Lone Cyprus or Alcatraz? Buggered if I know. Better to stick with referring to them by version number: 10.12 versus 10.7 is more meaningful than Sierra versus Lion.
On the Windows 10 "no more versions" bullsh!t and the don't-call-them-version-numbers, though: 1803, 1809, 1903, 1909 means nothing when they don't even mark the release months they were originally supposed to identify. At least you knew where you stood with Windows 2000 SP4 or Windows XP SP3.