The myriad threats to public, private and U.S. government networks is getting a ton of attention in Washington, D.C., this week as the House gets ready to debate yet another cybersecurity bill.

Check Point Software Technologies Tuesday announced a cloud-based threat-detection service that can help to identify botnets in real time and block them from wreaking havoc on enterprise networks.

A team of security experts cooperating globally say they've disabled a large botnet of about 110,000 remotely controlled infected machines dubbed HLux.B/Kelihos.B by interfering in its peer-to-peer connections in a "poisoning" process to sinkhole them, cutting off the botnet's central control point.

Microsoft won court permission to seize servers Friday that took down a deployment of the Zeus botnet, and it even detailed the corporate structure that enabled using the zombie network to steal cash from victims.

Love it or hate it, Microsoft is a company that brings out strong emotions in just about every IT professional. With 2011 about to end, it is time for our picks of some of smartest moves this powerful software company made this year - and some of the moves we'd say were not so bright.

Mobile phones will become an increasing menace to network security that could drop malware onto protected devices when they dock to sync or plug into USB ports to charge, security experts say in a Georgia Tech report.

SonicWall has launched its WAN Acceleration in SonicOS 5.8.1 solution designed to aid enterprises deliver Network Optimisation and allow IT to transition to an advanced security platform.

Security firm NetWitness today announced Spectrum, an appliance for enabling automated malware analysis that works in conjunction with the company's traffic-analysis gear used to spot threats and policy violations.

Combating the many denial-of-service attacks out there often feels like a battle of attrition.