Consider this: According to the Sophos Internet Security Report 2008,
Total number of different malware threats in
existence – over 11 million
Biggest malware threat – SQL injection attack against
websites
New web infections – 1 new infected webpage
discovered every 5 seconds
Spam-related webpages – 1 new page discovered
every 20 seconds
Top malware-hosting country – US with 38%
Top spam-relaying continent – Asia [...]
A firm grounding of what computer networks are and how they function is critical for our understanding of networks and network security. No discussion on networks is complete without talking about the very basics of networking, for which this first article is dedicated to.
Networking is important because of the fact that communication is important [...]