20 notorious worms, viruses and botnets

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	20 notorious worms, viruses and botnets The earliest worms and viruses were created for geeky fun and did little harm - oh, how times have changed. Here are 20 worms, viruses and botnets that show the evolution of malware, from Creeper to Flame. Read More WHITE PAPER: AT&T / AT&T Wireless The Possibilities of Connected Commerce As new mobile devices, consumer applications, social networks and cloud systems expand choices of when and how to connect and do business, corporate leaders are grappling with how to expand and enhance profitable connections, while keeping employees and the enterprise productive and secure. Learn More. 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Hitting back at cyberattackers: Experts discuss pros and cons The questions are being asked more often: When a cyberattack hits your network, is it right to launch a counter-attack of some type to try to at least identify the source if not stop it? Since the wheels of justice do indeed grind slowly, should frustrated IT professionals with security skills take matters into their own hands or hire others to do so? Read More Beyond BlackBerry: Pentagon opens door to iPhones, Android devices In another blow to RIM's fortunes, the U.S. Department of Defense may be willing to consider smartphones other than BlackBerries if they can meet the government's tough security rules. Read More Cisco's new management system simplifies control of thousands of servers Cisco this week unveiled a new management system for its UCS servers that is designed to simplify management of thousands of servers spread across geographies and data centers, from a single pane of glass. 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Read More FTC escalates anti-robocall campaign – takes out 5 mass callers Just two weeks after it challenged the public to come up with a better technological way to stop incessant robocalling, the Federal Trade Commission pulled the plug on five mass calling companies it said were allegedly responsible for millions of illegal pre-recorded calls from "Rachel" and others from "Cardholder Ser Read More Amazon drops cloud prices, again Amazon Web Services, fresh off an outage that brought down big-name sites such as Reddit and Imgur, today announced an 18% price reduction for its virtual machines, the 21st time the leading infrastructure as a service (IaaS) vendor has dropped prices since launching its cloud in 2006. Read More WHITE PAPER: Riverbed Top Ten Reasons to Use Steelhead Cloud Accelerator Steelhead Cloud Accelerator is a unique technology integration that can offer performance improvement for SaaS applications consumed by enterprises. It combines the best of WAN optimization with the best of Internet optimization to provide a seamless transition for users between private and public clouds. Learn more. Learn more. Huge customer effort keeps flooded NYC data center running When seawater from Hurricane Sandy flooded streets in lower Manhattan Monday night, it filled the bottom floors of the basement of an office building at 75 Broad St. This was not a good development for the data center operated by Peer1 Hosting. Read More Microsoft planning to tie Yammer, Skype to its CRM application Microsoft is preparing to release an update to its Dynamics CRM Online software that will feature a new user experience as well as tie-ins to its Yammer social networking software and Skype communication platform, the company announced Thursday. Read More Unprotected Apache server status pages put popular websites at risk Many Apache Web servers, including those hosting some popular websites, expose information about the internal structure of the sites they host, the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses of their visitors, the resources users access and other potentially sensitive details because their status pages are left unprotected. Read More
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