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Effective Data Tools For Securing Democracy Through Statistics

Armed with a set of 10-sided dice (we . He wanted to answer a very simple question The article located at arsTechnica is no longer available. . In the digital era, data profoundly shapes politics. By using statistics and open-source tools, we can proactively safeguard democracy and election integrity.. Democracy Protection, Statistical Methodologies, Open Source Applications. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

Calendar%202 Aug 07, 2012 User Avatar LinuxSecurity.com Team Security Projects
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Analyzing SpamThru Botnet Control Server Insights and Statistics

In an earlier analysis, we revealed a botnet created by a trojan sometimes called SpamThru. By working with the anti-spam group SpamHaus and the ISP, we were able to receive access to files from the SpamThru control server. We have analyzed the files, and in this report we will look at some of the statistics and interesting finds. SpamThru operates in a limited peer-to-peer capacity, but all bots report to a central control server. The bots are segmented into different server ports, determined by which variant of the trojan is installed. The bots are further segmented into peer groups of no more than 512 bots, keeping the overhead involved in exchanging information about other peers to a minimum. In the following graph, the total count as recorded by the control server is shown for each control port. . In the chart below, we can see the number of connections each control port received each day from the bots. The 2236 and 2238 variants gained a great deal more infected users than any of the other variants, sometimes bringing up to 3 million connections to the control server a day. Frequent connections are necessary to ensure that the information about the other peers is not stale, making it easier to recover in case the control server goes down. The link for this article located at Secure Works is no longer available. . In the chart below, we can see the number of connections each control port received each day from th. earlier, analysis, revealed, botnet, created, trojan, sometimes, called, spamthru, worki. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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In October 2001, Linux Defacement Rates Surpass Those Of Windows

One interesting fact this month is that for the first time in a long time the most defaced Operating System is actually Linux. Linux was defaced 670 times (36.69%) against Windows 625 times (34.23%). This is very rare and you might . . . . One interesting fact this month is that for the first time in a long time the most defaced Operating System is actually Linux. Linux was defaced 670 times (36.69%) against Windows 625 times (34.23%). This is very rare and you might wonder why. At the 24th of September an advisory was released from twlc.net about a new PHPNuke bug which affects all PHPNuke versions on all platforms basicly. PHPNuke is mostly ran on linux though. This is the most likely cause that the Linux defacements have gone up this month, I strongly doubt this "trend" will continue next month. According to the daily defacement graphics we can see that at the 5th of October the daily defacements went up from around 30 to 80 defacements / day. Perhaps this exploit and possible howto reached the defacement scene at that point. The link for this article located at Alldas.de is no longer available. . One interesting fact this month is that for the first time in a long time the most defaced Operating. interesting, month, first, defaced, operating. . LinuxSecurity.com Team

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