Archive for November, 2006

The Rise of For-Profit Botnets

November 6, 2006 by Arbor Networks

In this eWEEK OnSecurity Podcast, Jose Nazario, senior security researcher at Arbor Networks, talks with eWEEK’s Ryan Naraine about the extent of the for-profit botnet scourge

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Security Limitations of Dialup

November 2, 2006 by Carlos Morales

Most of the security discussions that I have involving infected hosts on the Internet tend to be focused around broadband users. It’s true: DSL, Cable modem and other high speed access technologies have given miscreants who own bot armies unbelievable amounts of bandwidth with which to launch attacks. This area should be the focus of [...]

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