HOME computer security should be top of the list of online defences to be shored up by the 鈥渃yber-security tsar鈥� the Obama administration is planning to appoint. So says Graham Cluley of the UK security firm Sophos.
President Obama鈥檚 into the vulnerability of America鈥檚 critical networks to online attacks has concluded that a White House cyber tsar is needed to coordinate Pentagon, intelligence service and private-sector security efforts.
This approach will not succeed unless it addresses the viruses and bots on home PCs that are used for most coordinated denial of service attacks, Cluley says. 鈥淥bama鈥檚 focus is on overseas threats, but the big threat is Aunt Ethel who doesn鈥檛 know her PC is part of a botnet. Broad education on firewalls and antivirus software is vital.鈥�
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