U.S. providers of Internet access will soon meet with a number of rules to combat various forms of hacking, according to recommendations released Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of USA.
An expert group in communications run by the FCC, brought together ovber 50 experts, user and professionals in order to make a series of recommendations that were approved by the FCC chairman and president Julius Genachowski.
"The recommendations adopted today identify intelligent solutions, practices, voluntary, which concretely improve cyber security of computer networks," Genachowski said in a statement.
The proposals recommend a code of conduct when it comes to zombie computer networks, or also known as botnets that are controlled by cyber criminals. The code makes sure that service providers comply by informing there customers of risks and of steps to prevent this from happening, even providing assistance in the case of being attacked cyberly. Whatever type of Internet Service Provider you may have it is critical nowadays to have an antivirus scanning your system.
Even more, the work group recommends Internet Service Providers establish a way to make sure DNS establishes a framework in order to prevent unwanted internet traffic from routing in your network.
Several US ISPs including Time Warner and Comcast have joined the group and have begun implementing its recommendations.
"We are not at all happy with the publishing reports: many companies that are serving over 80% of internet users in the USA will take part in providing meaningful solutions to all these cyber security issues", said Genachowski.
Some of the more serious problems are generated by zombie computers or botnets, which are a very serious threat to our digital economy. This one of the biggest reason why ISP such as Time Warner and Comcast are uniting forces to fight back against cybercriminals.
A set of robots or bots that run autonomously. Every month over four million computers are turned into botnets according to a survey done by our researchers.
An expert group in communications run by the FCC, brought together ovber 50 experts, user and professionals in order to make a series of recommendations that were approved by the FCC chairman and president Julius Genachowski.
"The recommendations adopted today identify intelligent solutions, practices, voluntary, which concretely improve cyber security of computer networks," Genachowski said in a statement.
The proposals recommend a code of conduct when it comes to zombie computer networks, or also known as botnets that are controlled by cyber criminals. The code makes sure that service providers comply by informing there customers of risks and of steps to prevent this from happening, even providing assistance in the case of being attacked cyberly. Whatever type of Internet Service Provider you may have it is critical nowadays to have an antivirus scanning your system.
Even more, the work group recommends Internet Service Providers establish a way to make sure DNS establishes a framework in order to prevent unwanted internet traffic from routing in your network.
Several US ISPs including Time Warner and Comcast have joined the group and have begun implementing its recommendations.
"We are not at all happy with the publishing reports: many companies that are serving over 80% of internet users in the USA will take part in providing meaningful solutions to all these cyber security issues", said Genachowski.
Some of the more serious problems are generated by zombie computers or botnets, which are a very serious threat to our digital economy. This one of the biggest reason why ISP such as Time Warner and Comcast are uniting forces to fight back against cybercriminals.
A set of robots or bots that run autonomously. Every month over four million computers are turned into botnets according to a survey done by our researchers.
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