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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 »
NAB floats denial-of-service threats to the cloud
Thanks to bots and the rise of financially-driven cybercrime, the menace of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are too real to ignore -- defending against such attacks however is driving collaboration between ISPs and top tier telcos to push security to the cloud. 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 »
'Zombie' PCs caused Web outage, Akamai says
The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net"--a large network of zombified home PCs according to Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies. 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 »
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Mitigate the effects of a DDoS attack
You can't thwart a DDoS attack -- they attack an IP address or service that's available to the Internet. If you can't prevent such an attack, what can you do to protect your organisation? Read more »
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 »
50 significant moments from internet history
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Social news start-up Streem shuts downSydney social news start-up Streem will shut down this afternoon, according to a heartfelt notice posted on the site this morning by its founder Elgar Welch. Read more »
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