The federal government and business are teaming up to help limit the adverse affect of botnets, those networks of hijacked personal computers that spew spam and malware. See Also: Know Thy Enemy: ...

Sheldon Whitehouse's amendment to tackle botnets in the Senate cyber bill failed. How much good might the legislation have done? Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse's (D-R.I.) CISA amendment to tackle botnets ...

This week, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK), in concert with cybersecurity agencies in the US and other countries, warned of China-nexus threat actors increasingly using covert ...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- RSA Conference 2011 -- The world's biggest and most prolific spamming botnet is now Rustock, with a 250,000 head count of bots, and its size and staying power have much to do with ...

Botnets are networks of hijacked computer devices used to carry out various scams and cyber attacks, under control of a single attacking party. According to Marlink’s Security Operations Center (SOC) ...

White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt knows the cyber threat is an amorphous landscape that’s constantly changing, requiring him to always be reevaluating where to direct his most ...