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White Paper No company from the smallest business with 10 users up to the largest enterprise with 100,000+ employees is immune from the security threats posed by rogue code, which include viruses, trojans, bots, zombies, spyware,... [30 Jun 2009]
Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
White Paper Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a significant quantity of innocent... [20 Jun 2009]
Zombie attacks on sale for a fiver
News Here's how it works: a cyber criminal creates a botnet by hiding malicious code in a legitimate website that is used to turn web surfing PCs into zombies. In order to increase the number of botnets, the Golden Cash... [18 Jun 2009]
Stopping Zombies, Botnets and Other Email-And Web-Borne Threats
White Paper Hijacked computers, or zombies, hide inside networks where they send spam, steal company secrets, and enable other serious crimes. This paper discusses how the threat has evolved, explains how zombie networks, or... [11 Jun 2009]
Conficker wakes up with payload for the infected
News W32.Waledac steals sensitive information, turns computers into spam zombies, and establishes a back door remote access. The Conficker worm started to update itself on Wednesday via peer-to-peer, and dropped a payload on... [09 Apr 2009]
BT slammed over unbundling price hike
News Z is for Zombies According to a statement from TalkTalk on Monday, BT raising its line charges for local loop unbundling (LLU) will "raise the barrier [to broadband access] for lower income households". [10 Mar 2009]
Global VPN access for BT's 21st Century Network
News Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. BT has introduced Intelligent Virtual Private Network, the first service for its global 21st Century Network. The iVPN service will let businesses access... [09 Mar 2009]
Cheap broadband will stop BT going fibre charge crazy
News Z is for Zombies The watchdog today announced it will be imposing no price controls on super high-speed broadband services, allowing BT to resell fibre access to other ISPs at whichever rate it sees fit. [03 Mar 2009]
Mobile broadband usage to grow despite crunch
News Click here for all there is on broadband, from fibre to zombies. As the great and the good of the mobile world meet at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona this week to discuss, among other topics,... [16 Feb 2009]
Mind the mobile broadband cash gap
News Z is for Zombies According to analyst Strand Consult, many operators are selling mobile broadband for around 50 per cent less than it costs to produce such volumes of data. Tough competition has driven prices down faster... [11 Feb 2009]
Broadband Britain: Where's our revolution?
Comment Z is for Zombies Yesterday the comms minister, Lord Carter, unveiled a draft strategy which the government hopes will ensure the UK keeps pace with tech change and grows its digital economy over the next five years and... [30 Jan 2009]
'UK needs spectrum-for-speed swap'
News Z is for Zombies The lottery-funded National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta) released a policy briefing on Monday, ahead of the launch of Lord Carter's interim Digital Britain review, in which it... [20 Jan 2009]
Bournemouth braced for first Fibrecity homes
News Z is for Zombies The superfast seaside broadband network is being built by sewer fibre-laying company H2O Networks, and is wholly funded by private equity investment. The first 30 homes to get fibre are located in... [20 Jan 2009]
UK broadband: Reality is half the promised speed
News Z is for Zombies According to a preliminary version of the telecommunications regulator's UK Broadband Speeds 2008 report, published on Thursday, the average downlink speed is 3.6Mbps. That represents around half the... [08 Jan 2009]
Virgin debuts 50Mbps broadband
News Z is for Zombies Virgin Media has finally launched its long-anticipated '50Mbps' cable broadband service but analysts have warned the headline speed may not be attainable for very long. The £51-per-month service, which... [16 Dec 2008]
