Top 20 Internet Threats: What Made the List?

What is the biggest Internet threat? Kindsight, a firm that works with ISPs to detect threats in the network, on Wednesday released a free portal where you can chart the movement of the top 20 Web security threats and top 20 home network intrusions,Goose Jakke at any given time.

As of today, the most famous of botnets,Canada Goose the Zeus Trojan, landed at number seven and was detected in 3 percent of all homes. Zeus surfaced twice in the list of top 20 Internet threats as Zbot.

The two rankings are maintained by Kindsight Security Labs, a division that analyzes tens of thousands of malware each day to develop a signature set that looks for symptoms of an infection. In the past,Canada Goose Jakke Kindsight focused on enterprise network intrusions, but Kevin McNamee, director of Kindsight Security Labs, said home networks and mobile devices were increasingly being targeted.

In the current lists, McNamee noted the prevalence of bots detected, with four of the top seven network infections deriving from bots and botnets. To rejog your memory, botnets are those massive networks of compromised computers that can be controlled without the owners' knowledge. They're used to make money,Canada Goose Jakke typically by sending out mass amounts of spam. For more, check out The Rise of the Botnets.

McNamee said the leak of the Zeus source code, which previously cost cybercriminals thousands of dollars, has inevitably led to the rise in the number of botnets we're seeing today.

Earlier today, the FBI announced the arrest of six Estonian nationals for an elaborate cyber crime ring that hijacked approximately 4 million computers worldwide, including 500,000 in the United States.

Greek parties agree to form unity government

Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou leaves the presidential palace in Athens. He has agreed to step down. (Louisa Gouliamaki, AFP/Getty Images / November 6, 2011)

Reporting from Athens— Canada Goose Parka
Greece's ruling socialists and opposition conservatives agreed to form a unity government Sunday, ending a week of political turmoil that threatened to push the country into bankruptcy and out of Europe's single currency.
Under the agreement, beleaguered Prime Minister George Papandreou will step down and his successor will be decided in a second round of talks Monday.
Former Bank of Greece Gov. Lucas Papademos, European ombudsman Nikiforos Diamantouros and independent deputy Elsa Papadimitriou are on the successor list, said a senior official who requested anonymity because of the talk's sensitivity.
The agreement was reached during crisis talks called by the country's president, Karolos Papoulias, who mediated between Papandreou and conservative New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras. Canada Goose
The duration of the new government remained unclear, but a statement issued by the president's office said elections would be held once Greece's agreement to implement a package of loans and bailouts offered by its European neighbors had been secured.
The landmark agreement follows immense pressure from concerned European officials who wanted to see quick implementation of the new debt deal to prevent the Greek crisis from spilling over to larger economies such as Spain and Italy. Officials warned over the weekend that Greece's failure to form a unity government would spell its exit from the Eurozone.
Specifically, European Union Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn said Greece had breached the confidence of its Eurozone partners last week and had put itself "on a path toward leaving the single currency, but now appeared to be back on the brink from the brink."Canada Goose Jakke
Sunday's power-sharing deal is expected to offer some respite and reassurance to skittish international investors who saw the value of the euro seesaw and shares of global stock markets sink last week.
Papandreou's imminent resignation will cap a two-year tenure that has seen the 59-year-old American-born leader go from surging to the helm of government as one of the country's most popular prime ministers to facing a near-ignominious fall last week when he barely managed to survive a confidence vote as scores of his deputies called for him to step aside.
His credibility both at home and abroad was crushed after he announced surprise plans to put the new European loan agreement to a referendum. He later backed down.
The European plan calls for private banks to take a 50% write-down on the value of Greek bonds they hold and for the Greek government to get a $140-billion loan in the second bailout stitched together by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund in a year. Failure to ratify the plan would block the release of $11 billion in rescue funds that Greece desperately needs before its cash reserves run dry by Dec. 15. Expedition Parka
The sober-sided antithesis of his father, who founded of the socialist PASOK party, Papandreou is expected to retain leadership of the group.
"It's not the most graceful of ends," said a Cabinet minister who requested anonymity. "But he was politically shattered. He had grown tired. He wanted to leave."