The Rustock botnet–one of the most prolific sources of spam–went silent this week. Microsoft worked with security vendors and the civil court system to pull the plug on Rustock. Some security experts ...

The effort to unmask and apprehend the criminals behind the massive Rustock botnet heated up today as Microsoft put up a $250,000 reward for new information on the botnet's operators. Rustock -- which ...

Notorious spam botnet Rustock has gone quiet and security analysts aren’t sure why. Researchers with Symantec’s MessageLabs Intelligence, citing a Brian Krebs post on KrebsonSecurity, said the botnet ...

Microsoft on Thursday wrapped up its civil case against the still-unnamed controllers of the Rustock botnet and handed off the information gleaned during its investigation to the FBI. But the move ...

It has been four months since Microsoft and federal authorities knocked the prolific spamming botnet Rustock offline, and some 700,000 of the estimated 1.6 million bots worldwide are still infected ...

If you opened your inbox this morning to find fewer spam emails than normal, it may not be a coincidence. The infamous Rustock botnet, the world's most prolific source of spam emails, went silent on ...

According to a new report from Symantec, global spam levels fell a whopping 33 percent when Rustock was taken down in mid-March. However, the criminals behind the Bagle botnet were quick to step in ...

More than 40 percent of the world’s spam is coming from a single network of computers that computer security experts continue to battle, according to new statistics from Symantec’s MessageLabs’ ...

A series of raids last week submarined Rustock, Microsoft said, noting that it had filed a lawsuit that sparked the raids. Rustock would take control of a computer and use it to send spam. It is ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

For more than 24 hours this week, it was a question that very few security experts could answer: Who had knocked the world’s worst spam botnet offline? After infecting close to a million computers and ...

Aaron Wendel opened the doors of his business to some unexpected visitors on the morning of Mar. 16, 2011. The chief technology officer of Kansas City based hosting provider Wholesale Internet found ...