Since a machine that is infected, but throttled, isn't spreading the virus any more, the overall speed of infection is reduced. Researchers at Hewlett-Packard laboratories in Bristol have been working on a new technology designed to choke internet...
Efforts by ISPs and carriers for more extensive blocking of addresses will help slow the flood of spam and stem email as an easy vector for infection. This blending of worms and spam indicates that spam - usually seen as a nuisance or legal risk...
From there, the infection can spread to millions in an hour or two. Just because an infection spreads rapidly via the email system doesn’t necessarily mean it originally entered in that way. Such ‘burrowing’ viruses are often called worms.
Autonomous network worms such as Nimda, Code Red and MSBlast have set the most worrying precedents, as they operate below the AV radar and leave organisations far more open to infection. Also, the Sobig Project employed spammed worms, with post...
The worm combines multiple attack techniques in an innovative way: spamming, social engineering, virus infection and Trojans. But further research has showed that the worms, which spam themselves using social engineering tactics, share too few...
To do so would undermine a central tenet of current ecommerce law and turn ISPs from conduits into active arbitrators, opening a can of worms that digital lawyers may never be able to close. But an attempt to turn ISPs into gamekeepers, whether via...