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Botnet plunders 70GB of personal and financial data in 10 days

Researchers from the University of California managed to hack into the command-and-control network used by hackers to manage an 180,000 strong botnet. In the short 10 days that they had access to the... Read more...

Tunnel borer mishap results in outage affecting 70,000 customers

In yet another data cable severing mishap, contractors working on an Olympic site in Stratford, United Kingdom, sent a large tunnel borer into a deep level British Telecom (BT) tunnel. The resulting... Read more...

Akamai: Obama inauguration sets web traffic record

According to Akamai, a content delivery network (CDN) provider, the inauguration of Obama has set a record number of 7 million data streams, the majority of which are live streams. This compares... Read more...

Who's responsible for spam and malware?

Traditionally, the debate over Internet security has involved the battle between the industry that seeks to protect companies and individuals from intruders, and the companies that make their profit... Read more...

Will the Internet crash?

Like an overinflated balloon, the Internet is at risk of breaking because of the amount of bandwidth online. A new study from Nemertes Research calls on U.S. ISPs to increase their broadband... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Microsoft security czar moves into new Windows system role; Learning from scandal and getting a grip on messaging;

> Microsoft security czar moves into new Windows system role. Article > Learning from scandal and getting a grip on... Read more...

Server cache can harbor malicious code

Every week seems to bring a new security alert about a risk factor that requires attention. The latest is "infection-by-proxy" code that can stay buried in server caches for weeks, adding a new... Read more...

Hackers hit Commerce network again

Chinese hackers aren't giving up in their quest to access confidential data housed within U.S. government systems. According to the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), a branch of the Commerce... Read more...

Attorney General: ISPs must retain data

Get ready for a huge outcry from privacy advocates as the U.S. Attorney General tries to make ISPs keep user data on file for at least a year in case they're needed for a criminal investigation.... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: A political movement to keep email free; Why application mapping is catching on with enterprises; and much more...

> Political rivals form a movement to keep email free. Article > Mac OS exploit goes... Read more...