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Anti-DDOS Alliance In The Works?

Posted by timothy on from the defusing-disruption dept.

Rackemup writes: "This article on ZDNET says McAfee and some anti-DDOS vendors are finally teaming up to address DDOS attacks and Code-Red-like network scanning. Seems like they're finally catching on that a purely reactive approach to Internet and virus attacks isn't going to cut it anymore, even after all the media coverage of these latest virus attacks there are still loads of zombie machines out there merrily scanning away, looking for others to infect."

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  1. fp? by imadoofus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    fp!

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  2. Re:Stephen King, author, dead at 54 by 72beetle · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You wish.

    The guy that hit him, however, was found dead.

    Read it here.

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