Yesterday, Google announced a new feature that alerts web surfers when their PCs might be infected with malware, but it’s hardly the only company using big data to fight cybercrime. We’ve covered a handful of them of over the past couple years. Read more »
Internet botnets wreak much of their havoc because of the sheer number of infected machines, and a startup security service called ipTrust is trying to fight fire with fire by using many terabytes worth of log files to combat these hordes of zombie PCs. Read more »
Botnets — autonomous and automated collections of compromised computers that 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 per […] Read more »
