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[News] [Rival] The Insecurities of Windows Mean Business

Battle of the botnets

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| Spammers pay a lot of money to rent time on these mega botnets,
| and the bigger the botnet, the bigger its capacity to distribute 
| spam, the more valuable a commodity it becomes.
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http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1464.html


Related:

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


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. 
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/


Symantec: Microsoft conflict of interest is damaging internet

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| Symantec's chief executive has lambasted Microsoft for a dangerous
| conflict of interest as both the provider of an operating system
| and seller of software designed to secure its users.
| 
| [...]
| 
| Thompson told RSA delegates: "You wouldn't want the company that is
| keeping your books to audit your books. The same logic should apply.
| You wouldn't want the company that created your company's operating
| platform to be the one that is securing it from a broad range of
| threats. It's a huge conflict of interest."
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/07/symantec_thompson_microsoft/

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