A small group of IT security startups are hoping to cash in on the rise of the botnet scourge as businesses — telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers, in particular — seek new ...

A new analysis of botnets has come up with a possible reason for their prodigious ability to infect PCs - many anti-virus programs are near to useless in blocking the binaries used to spread them.

When the Waledac botnet was dismantled by a security community-wide effort earlier this year, spam traffic immediately and discernibly dropped in a big way. But the researchers who worked in the ...

Sometimes, those of us in the computer biz get so wrapped up in the techie details that we forget that many people don’t know what we think are the basics. For example, a really smart, computer-savvy ...