Spam Made Up 94% Of All E-Mail In December
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| "The major event in communications security is the emergence of
| botnets. This has changed the game, the dynamics, and economics
| of the Internet security marketplace. When the bad guys can now
| harness more than a million computers around the world and use
| them to push an increasing amount of attacks, that's a major
| change."
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http://www.informationweek.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=4H4VB4FGNIKEWQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197001430
http://tinyurl.com/39zfap
Related:
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
| the BBC reports. "Despite all that, the net is still working,
| which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient," he said.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
To quote a message I sent out this morning:
"For the past week there have been some bandwidth issues at <anon>
Hall. At times, the speed of the network falls to about 1% of its capacity
and I suspect it may have something to do with heavy downloads (legal or
not), maybe even zombies. As the problem does not seem to go away I just
thought I should tell you."
Just a couple of week ago:
"We have just disconnected a guy whose LAN had 15000 connections with 178GB.
He is using Windows XP. Is it at all surprising that servers grind to a halt
and sometimes collapse under heavy load? This affects tens of thousands of
people. Anyway, I told him not to be alarmed. It's probably a passive
action, but things used to be easier when you could deal with the criminal
directly, not with victims."
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