HOME computer security should be top of the list of online defences to be shored up by the “cyber-security tsar” the Obama administration is planning to appoint. So says Graham Cluley of the UK security firm Sophos.
President Obama’s study into the vulnerability of America’s 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. “Obama’s focus is on…
