We firmly believe denial of service attacks that produce wave after wave of downed websites and infected emails are the new reality in the fight against spam, viruses and worms," said Scott Chasin, email management company MX Logic's chief...
As worms and viruses such as SoBig, MSBlast and MyDoom continue to propagate through millions of networks throughout the world, the need for technology to keep those elements off networks has increasingly become important.
The data shows that 43 per cent of attacks were due to worms. The remaining 17 per cent of attacks were intrusion attempts that weren't caused by worms. That's because a single computer can be used in several attacks, and other worms took greater...
Hardly a day goes by without seeing headlines about the latest worms, viruses, Trojan horses, and hack attacks slowing the flow of email on the internet or bringing down websites. For example, if businesses become more effective at thwarting worms...
Much of the problem is with the rapid propagation of worms and the fact traditional antivirus is inherently reactive. The phenomenon of the 'Warhol worm' which spreads rapidly - and enjoys '15 minutes of fame' - has often done its damage long...
Eckert told silicon.com: "While the attacks are not going down and the network worms are still a risk, society at large has got better. Microsoft has witnessed an improvement in the way people are securing their computers.