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Kindsight Empowers Internet Service Providers to Defend Against Botnets

Today Kindsight announced the Kindsight Botnet Security service to help Internet service providers detect botnet activity in the network and protect subscribers against bot infections. The Kindsight solution is embedded within the service providers’ networks to analyze Internet traffic for communications between infected devices and the bot masters’ command-and-control (C&C) servers.

Kindsight News Release
02/26/2013

Kindsight to Present on Growing Botnet Issues at Security B-Sides San Francisco and RSA Conference

Today Kindsight announced that Kevin McNamee, security architect and director of , will present on the rising botnet concerns in mobile and broadband networks at both RSA Conference and Security B-Sides San Francisco during the week of February 25, 2013.

Kindsight News Release
02/19/2013

Home Networks, Including Mac Systems, Rife With Bots

A wide variety of North American consumers, from everyday Windows users to mobile workers and Mac users, have a hitchhiker on their computer systems when they go online, according to the latest malware report by security-service provider Kindsight.

eWeek
02/17/2013

Mobile network infections increase by 67%

Kindsight released a new report that reveals security threats to home and mobile networks, including a small decline in home network infections and an increase in mobile network infections.

Help Net Security
02/15/2013

Home Networks Show Traces of Malware: Kindsight

A little over one in ten households with broadband access have been hit by malware, according to the latest report from Kindsight

PC Mag
02/15/2013

Android Malware Attacks on the Rise

Kindsight, an Alcatel-Lucent subsidiary, is also reporting that mobile network infections are on the rise.

Slashdot
02/14/2013

Kindsight Security Labs Releases Q4 2012 Malware Report

Today Kindsight released the Kindsight Security Labs Malware Report for Q4 2012. The report reveals the latest research from Kindsight on security threats to home and mobile networks, including a small decline in home network infections and an increase in mobile network infections.

Kindsight News Release
02/12/2013

ZeroAccess Most Active Botnet in Q4 2012, Kindsight Reports

The ZeroAccess botnet closed out 2012 as the most active botnet in the wild, according to a malware report from security vendor Kindsight.

SecurityWeek
02/12/2013

Report: 13 Percent of Home Networks Had Malware in 2012

Some 13 percent of home networks in North America were infected with malware in 2012 and about half of that number were hit with high-level threats, according to a new report from Alcatel-Lucent’s Kindsight Security Labs.

PCMag
02/12/2013

Malnets to Continue Targeting Mobile Devices in 2013

The Android numbers are more or less in line with a report released this week by Canadian security firm Kindsight Security that predicts the platform will move from an “emerging threat” to a “new level” this year.

Threatpost
02/12/2013