Saturday, January 27, 2007

Internet pandemic

As someone who works in IT, I see first hand how costly security can be for businesses. And how much damage malicious viruses, malware, etc. can cause. It's only going to get worse... but we all need to do everything we can, from a personal standpoint, to keep our computers secure.

"Criminals controlling millions of personal computers are threatening the internet's future, experts have warned.

Up to a quarter of computers on the net may be used by cyber criminals in so-called botnets, said Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet.

Mr Cerf, who is one of the co-developers of the TCP/IP standard that underlies all internet traffic and now works for Google, likened the spread of botnets to a "pandemic".

Of the 600 million computers currently on the internet, between 100 and 150 million were already part of these botnets, Mr Cerf said. "

BBC: Criminals 'may overwhelm the web'

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