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Five percent of Web traffic caused by DDoS attacks
After analysing traffic from 68 ISPs around the globe, a security researcher claims that as much as five percent of all Internet traffic is from DDoS-attacks. Read more »
US wants its own botnet for preemptive strikes
The US Air Force is talking openly about forming botnets to launch preemptive attacks in cyberspace. Read more »
Storm worm botnet upgraded, prepared for attack
The owners of the Storm botnet, whose identities are as yet unknown, could be preparing to sell off the "services" of segments of the network, according to Joe Stewart, a researcher from managed security services company SecureWorks. Read more »
Escalating DoS attacks may 'shut down the Internet'
Denial-of-service attacks are growing faster than bandwidth is being added to the Internet, according to VeriSign, the company that administers the .com domain. Read more »
Web attackers get better at hiding
Cybercrooks who rig Web sites to break into PCs are getting better at hiding their malicious code, a security expert said this week. Read more »
'Botnets could eat the Internet'
Father of the Internet Vint Cerf has warned attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos that the Iinternet is at serious risk from botnets. Read more »
Georgian president suffers cyberattack
The website of the Georgian president was the subject of a distributed-denial-of-service attack over the weekend. Read more »
Flaw in BGP net protocol
Security researchers have warned of an underlying security issue concerning the Border Gateway Protocol, the core internet routing protocol. Read more »
Microsoft: 'We won't charge to fix vulnerabilities'
Microsoft has witnessed an improvement in the way people are securing their computers. Read more »
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10+ things you should know about rootkits
Malware-based rootkits fuel a multibillion dollar spyware industry by stealing individual or corporate financial information. If that weren't bad enough, rootkit-based botnets generate untold amounts of spam. Here's a look at what rootkits are and what to do about them. Read more »
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