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| DATE | 2004-09-20 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Big Oppurtunity for the Ready Free Software Enterprise Desktop
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This Enterprise Ready Desktop Solution is becoming big news this week
Check out this article from the BBC....think It managers are getting a
little itchy for a real enterprise desktop, such as SuSE or something
like that?
URL is for complete article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3666978.stm
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Last Updated: Monday, 20 September, 2004,
08:04 GMT 09:04 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version
Net security threats growing fast Older machines are more vulnerable
More than 30,000 PCs per day are being recruited into secret networks
that spread spam and viruses, a study shows.
Six months ago only 2,000 Windows machines per day were being recruited
into these so-called bot nets.
Experts say the numbers are growing quickly because the remotely
controlled networks are so useful to people who profit from hacking and
virus writing.
The figures came to light in Symantec's biannual Internet Threat Report
which traces trends in net security.
Hidden harm
Nigel Beighton, a member of Symantec's Threat Team, said the number of
PCs being enrolled in these networks was the stand out statistic for
the latest report which covers the first six months of 2004.
The peak of new recruits was 75,000 in one day.
This high watermark was hit when the creators of the MyDoom and Bagle
viruses were conducting an online war that resulted in many different
versions of their malicious programs being released.
Once created the networks of zombie PCs are used as anonymous relays
for spam, to launch denial of service attacks on websites or simply to
steal confidential information about a PC's owner.
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