February breaks digital risk records worldwide
Evidence in favour of BSD and Mac OS X gathers pace
London, UK - 1 March 2004, 12:30 GMT - February 2004 has broken some
key records to become the second most economically damaging month for digital
risk manifestation, according to data collected by the mi2g Intelligence
Unit since 1995. This month also heralds the first time that commercial websites
have been successfully targeted through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)
attacks orchestrated via armies of million-plus zombies - mostly home and
small business computers - infected by malware, including The SCO Group and
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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