How a Botnet Gets Its Name There is a new kid in town in the world of botnets - isn't there always? A heavyweight spamming botnet known as Festi has only been tracked by researchers with Message Labs Intelligence since August, but is already responsible for approximately 5 percent of all global spam (around 2.5 billion spam emails per day), according to Paul Wood, senior analyst with Messagelabs, which keeps tabs on spam and botnet activity. Swarms of networked robots to probe the ocean Swarms of robots will soon be scooting across the ocean floor looking to monitor everything from protected marine areas and fish migration patterns to a variety of other biological activities. Online users becoming less anxious over security, privacy While surveys about security usually end up telling us about how bad people feel, a global survey released Tuesday indicates there's substantially less anxiety about Internet security, personal safety and national security than there was six months ago. Security pros seek hacking, forensics skills The Computing Technology Industry Association of 1,500 IT workers found that majority intend to pursue security and related certifications in the coming years. Internet battlefield program marshals NATO forces Getting military forces from different nations to work together in Afghanistan is no easy task, but before multinational troops with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization arrive there, officers and others are often trained through an online Battle Labs computer simulation via the Internet. Drowning in Passwords: Tips to Stay Safe and Sane Another day, another password: Thanks to Web-based apps, we're all acquiring passwords at quite a clip. How do you remember them all while staying secure? Here are some helpful tools and strategies -- that don't involve writing your passwords on sticky notes. Can we block all IPv6 tunnels in our enterprise network? A major IPv4 to IPv6 transition technique is the use of tunnels; this is encapsulating IPv6 packets into IPv4 packets that can then be transported over the IPv4-only parts of the Internet. Those tunnels can also be used within the enterprise network either on purpose (for example to traverse some legacy network devices not supporting IPv6) or not on purpose... Patch Tuesday: Six expected patches, two surprise revised ones As expected, Microsoft's November Patch Tuesday consists of six updates, three critical, that fix 15 holes. The company also re-released two more patches, both critical Here is the low-down, provided by Microsoft, of each new patch issued today: November giveaways Cisco Subnet is giving away free books on VMware vSphere security. Microsoft Subnet is giving away training from New Horizons and free books on Exchange Server 2010. Google Subnet is giving away free books on Android app development. Entry forms can be found on the main contest page. Trivia answers are revealed on each main Subnet page. Network World on Twitter? You bet we are |
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