Comments on: Botnets Tighten Their Grip on the Broadband Infrastructure

By: GNC-2009-10-02 #516 Taking the Show on the Road

GNC-2009-10-02 #516 Taking the Show on the Road — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:13:03 +0000

[...] Links: Microsoft Exec Pay Cuts Feeddemon Version 3.0 Botnets our of Control! Scoble says Google Waves overhyped. Gigaom gives Google Wave thumbs up? 25 Million Pitch! Secret [...]

By: House Committee: ISPs Must Block Scam Sites

House Committee: ISPs Must Block Scam Sites — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:28:58 +0000

[...] was launching a new program called “Constant Guard” to combat botnets, which are a huge threat to networks of all kinds. A few months ago I had the opportunity to speak to Ed Amoroso, [...]

By: 4 Reasons Why Mozilla’s Raindrop & the Intelligent Inbox Matter

4 Reasons Why Mozilla’s Raindrop & the Intelligent Inbox Matter — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:28:20 +0000

[...] is that for many users, email is broken. Inboxes are flooded with useless information as botnets tighten their grip on the broadband infrastructure, alternative ways to send and view messages are proliferating, and it’s just difficult to [...]

By: Daily Botnet Statistics

Daily Botnet Statistics — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:26:01 +0000

Botnets pose a serious threat to everyone, that’s for sure. But does anyone really try to solve it? I mean, don’t just measure the number of botnet computers. If Symantec can filter billions of spam every day, collecting the IPs of botnet computers should be easy. Make an effort to notify those victims, so that they can do something about it. That might boost the sale of their security products as well.

By: Comcast to Put Botnet Cops on the Security Beat

Comcast to Put Botnet Cops on the Security Beat — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:48:38 +0000

[...] spew spam all around the globe — have become a scourge on the communications infrastructure. As we covered a few days ago, Message Labs, a division of Symantec that tracks over 3.7 billion SMTP connections [...]

By: Privacy And Other Policies | ClipCopy Content Solutions

Privacy And Other Policies | ClipCopy Content Solutions — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:39:47 +0000

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By: Eideard

Eideard — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:33:43 +0000

Entirely too reasonable and rational. :)

By: shivlu jain

shivlu jain — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:01:13 +0000

I am stumble to see huge spam messages flooding. They are using enough of bandwidth with no reasons.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:02:52 +0000

It’s true that the security vendors do produce some of the doom-and-gloom reports about spam, but the MessageLabs division has been doing monthly spam metrics for many years, and really does do them monthly–whether there is a new product release or not. Also, the numbers on botnets are in line with similar numbers recently reported from several sources at the RSA conference.

Sebastian

By: b

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 23:43:55 +0000

Thank goodness they just happened to come out with their new product line:

http://www.symantec.com/about/news/release/article.jsp?prid=20090909_01

It’s pretty typical to come out with a new product and then launch a bunch of press releases with doom and gloom headlines that their product just happens to protect against. This is more a PR piece for Symantec than it is news for us.