Responding to network attacks

Though they’re not going away anytime soon — and every security geek in the IT department knows it — distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks still cause great panic in most organizations hit by them. This being the case, it bears underscoring the importance of planning ahead so that you don’t get caught flatfooted when the next […]

Underground digital economy spotlighted

In October 2008, the Symantec Corporation published its Report on the Underground Economy, which is the culmination of a year-long effort to observe and record the behaviors of bad actors in the cybercrime arena. By watching the activities of malicious botnets over a long period of time, Symantec’s researchers were able to identify likely interaction […]