__/ [ 7 ] on Saturday 02 June 2007 22:59 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> F-Secure CEO: There's more malware than ever
>>
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>> | DDoS continues to harass people across the world. But is it more,
>> | is it less? What we are seeing is it is taking up a lot of bandwidth
>> | and we need to protect people.
>> |
>> | I think there could actually be a big shift from commercial to
>> | political DDoS attacks, such as we saw recently with Estonia
>> | [and Russia]. Any place where you have political instability
>> | you could see an increase in DDoS attacks in that region.
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6188138.html
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> I think ISPs need to be more proactive and detect and elimate traffic that
> is considered to be emanating from worms and viri. If the windummies
> fail to rectify their PCs, then restricting their access to just support
> pages and a limited number of ISP server IP addresses would drastically
> cut down on their infection rates and propagation rates.
> Hard up ISPs would save a lot of money on bandwidth as well.
One mistake that ISPs make (including ourselves) is allowing people to get
reconnected too quickly. The punishment is not severe enough and the sin
must recur 3 times (in one year) in order for fine to yield some 'pain'.
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