items tagged with Internet Security

The BBC in the UK has reported that it has easily acquired its own botnet controlling thousands of home computers as part of an investigation into global cybercrime.

BitDefender is offering a free tool for consumers that will disinfect all versions of Downadup – or  the Conficker worm as it’s commonly known – which the security firm says has swept across the globe infecting 15 million computers worldwide.

Schoolchildren, their parents and teachers are about to get a kit to help them combat the increasing problem of cyberbullying.

Mobile internet operators have a moral obligation to provide safeguards that limit access of children and, what’s more, they should consider self-regulation and their social responsibility or face the prospect of regulators demanding that they implement methods to protect children, according to a UK management firm advising that country’s technology, media and telecommunications industries.

Message Partners has just released into the public domain for use with spam filters, what it claims is the world’s most extensive offensive language list, including hundreds of thousands of permutations of sexually explicit language.