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Comment B is for Botnets The broadband society, botnets and the Russian Business Network were, as yet, largely unimagined dangers. Now security experts admit traditional approaches can't keep pace with the growth in malware.
[29 Apr 2008]
Comment Editor's choice silicon.com editor Steve Ranger flags up his picks on the site this week.¦ Photos: Australian broadband goes for a deep-sea dive ¦ FBI cyber crime chief on botnets, web terror and the social network threat ¦ Peter...
[17 Apr 2008]
Comment It will be botnets. The marketing of cyber crime in general and botnets in particular is a growing threat. We are concerned we do see that because botnets are by nature a force multiplier. O'Neal works at the cyber division headquarters at the FBI...
[15 Apr 2008]
Comment B is for Botnets Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying some new technology. In reality, good security requires fundamental organisational change, says Danny Bradbury
[28 Mar 2008]
Comment B is for Botnets Yet most firms don't know how sensitive data is getting out, let alone how to stop it. Tools exist to shore up those vulnerabilities, says Anthony Plewes. Ever-increasing email attachment file sizes and multi-gigabyte removable...
[19 Mar 2008]
Comment B is for Botnets Putting a ring of steel around corporate data is only part of the answer. The real security threats may actually lie uncomfortably close to home, argues Stewart Baines. Hardly a week passes without another big data breach...
[10 Mar 2008]
Comment Companies have been developing their security counter-measures to deal with the more common, asymmetric mass attacks launched through spam, phishing, botnets, denial of service and all manner of other exploits.
[27 Feb 2008]
Comment B is for Botnets The issue of data encryption has been brought into sharp focus recently with the HMRC data loss fiasco. Paul Bentham explains why it is important government staff adhere to guidelines around it.
[21 Dec 2007]
Comment As outlined in the first article of this special report there are millions of infected computers forming botnets, whose primary purpose is to spew out countless messages urging us to buy Viagra, or providing the latest 'hot tip' in shares.
[10 Dec 2007]
Comment B is for Botnets From my point of view, it's rare indeed that the subject of two silicon.com campaigns - scrutinising the technology behind the controversial ID cards project and our Full Disclosure campaignwhich calls for improving data...
[21 Nov 2007]
Comment The botnets grew too quickly, were difficult for them to control and were large blips on the radar screens of the antivirus vendors. Botnets gave them the anonymity they required and the increasing penetration of always-on home broadband networks...
[19 Nov 2007]
Comment Spit could be generated in a similar way to email spam with botnets targeting millions of VoIP users from compromised machines. If your business uses or is considering rolling out VoIP, you should be aware of the many ways your systems could be...
[09 Mar 2007]
Comment At the same time, the daily impact from online crime spreads like a brushfire, leading one of the architects of the internet, Vint Cerf, to warn recently of a pandemic with up to a quarter of computers on the net available to cyber criminals in so...
[07 Mar 2007]
Comment There are even wholesalers of botnets. Botnets, that's what. We need the same for botnets and spam. From the first time I used email up to the present it has been one of my primary business tools. Not only does it afford me access to vast numbers...
[19 Feb 2007]
Leader B is for Botnets In this post-Enron era the prosecution and punishment of perpetrators of white collar crime and corporate fraud is something still high on the agenda for the US authorities. High-profile sentences include 25 years for former...
[22 Nov 2006]
Leader B is for Botnets This morning news broke that the Nationwide building society had suffered the theft of a laptop which contained customer account information. The Financial Services Authority is currently investigating.
[14 Nov 2006]
Leader Botnets, distributed denial of service attacks, mass mailers, spyware, Trojans - these are all regular security threats. The other thing they all have in common is that none of them was around 10 years ago.
[04 Aug 2006]
Comment Criminals care little for where their botnets are located, as long as they are connected to a broadband connection which can be abused. This isn't to say that compromised PCs - or botnets - are solely a US problem, far from it.
[09 May 2006]
Comment The botnets are used by their owners to defraud internet advertisers, as in Ancheta's case. Now botnets and phishing dominate malware. He sees botnets as a major problem that cannot be easily fixed because the hijacked machines are mostly home PCs...
[12 Apr 2006]
Leader By ordering ISPs to monitor and act on open relays and botnets, a huge chunk of compromised machines used to relay spam will be taken out of commission. Australia's announcement that it is to get tough on internet service providers (ISPs) by...
[30 Mar 2006]
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