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Spam storm needs ISP action, urges security chief
News Speaking about the growing problem of botnets and the deluge of spam they create, David Rand, CTO of security company Trend Micro, told silicon.com: "I absolutely believe this is the ISPs' responsibility. [14 Mar 2007]
ISPs urged to clean up the internet
News Clearswift's Simpson said: "The ISPs could close down these botnets and clean up the internet, perhaps not overnight but certainly in short order. Home users such as those on Telewest's Blueyonder service are sending hundreds of thousands of emails... [28 Apr 2005]
Leader: ISPs must be forced to stop spam
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]
Australia makes crucial step in war on spam
News More importantly the ISPs must proactively scan traffic for open relays and botnets - networks of compromised PCs used for sending spam. Australia, already regarded as the world's champion of anti-spam law, has taken the latest step in outlawing... [29 Mar 2006]
Analysis: A globetrotter's guide to cyber crime
Comment This isn't to say that compromised PCs - or botnets - are solely a US problem, far from it. Criminals care little for where their botnets are located, as long as they are connected to a broadband connection which can be abused. [09 May 2006]
Security experts criticise Phorm
News B is for Botnets Clayton found that part of Phorm's system involves mediating web page requests between users and ISPs. From a commercial standpoint, it would be entirely stupid for us to downgrade the user experience, as ISPs buy in[to the service]. [18 Apr 2008]
Gov't data retention - how much is too much?
News B is for Botnets He said the draft bill was unnecessary as government could gain access to all the communications data it needed from ISPs under the existing Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act. At present it is unclear whether the draft bill... [10 Jul 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Report from spam hell
Comment There are even wholesalers of botnets. Botnets, that's what. We need the same for botnets and spam. Network providers and ISPs can do a lot to isolate and render useless the bot generators - in short they can block their traffic at source or mid... [19 Feb 2007]
Cybercrime - together we can defeat it
News The attacks work by flooding servers with traffic often generated by hijacking private PCs -- so called botnets. Yu claimed that although its own service provider Cable & Wireless had been very effective, there is a lot more that ISPs could be... [29 Nov 2004]
Killing Botnets: A View From the Trenches
White Paper IntruShield is critical to pinpointing and disrupting botnet controlers and interrupts several phases of botnet infection in the ongoing war against botnets. McAfee IntruShield IPS protects telcos, Internet service providers (ISPs), enterprises... [07 Jan 2008]
ISPs counter uSwitch 'unfairness' claims
News This could include spending excessive time using their connection, which could slow the network, or being the source of rogue activity (e.g.botnets) that could harm others. ISPs have rejected claims their fair usage policies could see broadband... [13 Mar 2007]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment 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 connected to an ADSL line. The botnets are used by their owners to defraud internet... [12 Apr 2006]
DoS attack could shut down the net
News The Probation Service has upgraded its servers in the past week to cope with the traffic created by botnets, according to one if its security managers. Tim Pickett, a former technical security analyst at AOL, said ISPs should monitor their networks... [26 Sep 2007]
PayPal wages war on phishing
News B is for Botnets Currently PayPal is also focusing on an approach where ISPs block emails seemingly sent from PayPal that don't have the correct digital signature. Speaking at the RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Michael Barrett... [11 Apr 2008]
Trend Micro targets spam with Kelkea buy
News We see botnets, phishing and pharming as important areas and unless you can leapfrog those threats, you're always trailing behind," Rynne said. Kelkea provides an anti-spam service to a range of US-based ISPs such as AOL by tackling such content... [15 Jun 2005]
