Botnets are the biggest threat facing the Internet today and neither education, technology or the police can help, according to experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week.
Search giant Google has catapulted itself to the top in the ranks of web hosts with the most malware, courtesy of its blogging website Blogger, according to security vendor Sophos.
Internet security company CipherTrust on Thursday breathed life into its ZombieMeter, a new system that tracks traffic from compromised PCs around the world.
Hoping to turn the tide on spam zombies, Microsoft has filed suit against entities it said used compromised PCs to send millions of junk e-mail messages.
Malicious code that exploits a recent Windows hole has led to significant growth in the number of hijacked PCs, according to messaging security company CipherTrust.
If providers don't pitch in against the threat, customers might defect -- and the health of the Net itself could suffer.
Security researchers have been infiltrating denial of service 'botnets' to study what may be an unstoppable Distributed Denial of Service (DoS) technique.
The domain name system--the global directory that maps names to Internet protocol addresses--was designed to distribute authority, making organisations literally "masters of their own domain".
In final instalment of 'Securing Microsoft', Ina Fried looks at the next generation of security threats. With Microsoft now outspending everyone with their massive security budget, will it be enough to stop ever more sophisticated security threats?
Myriad solutions are available to help eradicate spam. In this guide, ZDNet Australia looks at one such answer -- hosted or outsourced anti-spam management.
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