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CNET News Daily Podcast: Cybersecurity outlook goes from grim to worse

A new report warns that IT spends most of its security resources detecting and mitigating distributed denial-of-service attacks.

Charles Cooper Former Executive Editor / News
Charles Cooper was an executive editor at CNET News. He has covered technology and business for more than 25 years, working at CBSNews.com, the Associated Press, Computer & Software News, Computer Shopper, PC Week, and ZDNet.
Charles Cooper

The fourth edition of the Worldwide Infrastructure Security Report is out and it makes for somber reading. Not only are attacks larger in size, but most of them are stretching the upper limits of companies' security resources in order to deal with the challenge.


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