29 March 2005
Surfing the Internet is set to become more secure with the news that a group of eighty internet service firms have switched on software to spot and stop attacks automatically.
The system creates "digital fingerprints" of ongoing incidents that are then sent to every network affected.
The system has been brokered by US firm Arbor Networks but the firm is not planning to charge for the service and will pass on fingerprint data to every network affected
Data gathered will also be passed to police in a bid to catch the culprits.
"What we want to do is help net service firms communicate with each other and then push the attacks further and further back around the world to their source," said Rob Pollard, sales director for Arbor Networks.© DeHavilland Information Services plc
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