Five Internet Service Providers have been recruited by the government to hunt down virus-infected computers used to send spam or launch DDoS attacks from Australia.
The latest Sober virus, which was first spotted over the weekend, has generated the vast majority of virus-laden e-mail traffic over the last 24 hours and could cause problems for corporate e-mail gateways, according to anti-virus firms.
More computers in the Asia-Pacific region are being hijacked and used remotely by hackers to send viruses, according to a recent study by security vendor Symantec.
CERT/CC, a US based group responsible for alerting the Internet community to security threats, has today warned that an increase in network share-based attacks may be paving the way for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
Dutch police have arrested three individuals suspected of hacking into more than 100,000 computers worldwide and using the hijacked systems in online crimes.
The world of IT security is in chaos, with CSOs seemingly on the front lines of a full scale global cyberwar being fought out by government hackers, botnet-controlling criminal gangs and compromised Web sites. Can we ever hope to keep networks safe in such an environment?
Plans are afoot to attack spammers by launching the kind of cyber-attack favoured by organised crime and hackers with an axe to grind.
When chief information officers and other technology managers talk about their priorities, security is always high on the list.
Security researchers worked overtime in 2007, which turned out to be a nightmare for software vendors from day one.
commentary Who takes the time and effort to pull off malicious stunts, like viruses, malware, worms, Trojans, or any other deliberately damaging actions? And why?
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