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Is the Internet doomed to fail? A Commentary…

In other words, has the Internet passed its “use-by” date? It is interesting conjecture that “The” Internet is doomed. I agree that “The Current State” of the Internet will be different tomorrow and if we declare every variation of what … Continue reading

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Botnet Blog

Watching modern botnets grow and form themselves into the equivalent of a raging horde of cyber delinquents, I come to wonder why is it that we cannot find a way through the threads of privacy concerns to offer a ray … Continue reading

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Internet Traffic Report: Mounting IP Pressures

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) traffic levels are starting to lose out to streaming , according to a recently released reports. John Timmer from Ars Technica discussed the findings (http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/02/internet-traffic-report-p2p-porn-down-games-and-flash-up.ars) a few weeks ago discussed some of the findings.  While they are from … Continue reading

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DDoS Attacks Aimed at Security Sites?

As Kelly Jackson Higgins at Dark Reading reported yesterday, white-hat security Web sites Metasploit, Packet Storm, Milw0rm and Immunity have been hit with a wave of DDoS attacks since late last week.  The attack against Metasploit were comprised of botnets … Continue reading

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Security issues with DNS

Recent press is brewing up more concerns about security issues with DNS .  This time it pertains to DNS being a possible tool to amplify Denial of Service attacks as an attacker can send a spoofed DNS request that becomes … Continue reading

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