Weathering the storm

Life keeps getting more difficult for information security researchers - and it's not all down to the bad guys.

The old Chinese proverb "may you live in interesting times" seems to apply increasingly to IT security researchers. In the past few weeks, two, seemingly unconnected, events have caught my attention: the rise of the Storm worm and the release of a report on personal internet security by the House of Lords' science and technology committee. By now, I'm sure most security professionals are aware of Storm. The name was first given to a particular mass mailing of a Trojan a few months ago. The purpose of the Trojan was to create a botnet. This botnet has been growing, sending ...
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