Criminals 'may overwhelm the web' (run for your lives!)

[Dover]

Criminals 'may overwhelm the web'
By Tim Weber
Business editor, BBC News website, Davos

Do you know if your PC has been taken over by cyber-criminals?
Criminals controlling millions of personal computers are threatening the internet's future, experts have warned.
Up to a quarter of computers on the net may be used by cyber criminals in so-called botnets, said Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the internet.

Technology writer John Markoff said: "It's as bad as you can imagine, it puts the whole internet at risk."

The panel of leading experts was discussing the future of the internet at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Internet pandemic

Mr Cerf, who is one of the co-developers of the TCP/IP standard that underlies all internet traffic and now works for Google, likened the spread of botnets to a "pandemic"...cont'd

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6298641.stm

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Terra! Must....have (cough..cough..gasp)...more...security....!

[Demeter]

1. Define Terrorists

The people who sell such faulty software, or the ones that exploit it? Or the people that would pay good money to shut down Democratic Underground?

[JoFerret]

2. But also

<<<Despite all that, the net is still working, which is pretty amazing. It's pretty resilient>>>
Vint Cerf