The Internet requires your help

[Hanno Labuschagne]

The Internet requires your help

Countless malware threats that have previously been contained are at risk of being released into the wild again.

This is because the world's largest non-profit cybersecurity organisation, Shadowserver, is at risk of shutting down.

Shadowserver has historically aided federal law enforcement institutions, including the FBI, in “sinkholing” domain names which are used by extensive malware operations.

 

[Thor]

Cisco would not have pulled out if this was a necessary/necessity service.

 

[rrh]

Krebs on Security

This has been Ciscos plan for some time as they’ve begun to massively push their own product, Cisco Umbrella, into the market.

- ron (in the comments)

 

[Swa]

So why don't the governments that use them contribute?