The World's Largest Coordinated Hacking Effort Read the technical details on the largest coordinated hacking attempt ever documented. We've grown accustomed to instant on-demand access to the information and resources we desire. In our haste to develop Internet applications, security concerns have fallen by the wayside. Only in the aftermath of e-mail viruses and distributed denial of service attacks are these issues emerging into mainstream thought. You'll find an eclectic mix of security practitioners ranging from security administrators to research scientists to managers just trying to defend their small piece of the Internet.
Security is easy to ignore.
It's usually not glamorous work and often tends to be routine. Unfortunately, it's also usually a thankless task because the successful security administrator is never noticed. However, when security is neglected the results can be disastrous. There is a lot of information pertaining to computer security available on the Internet, yet the average IT professional doesn't have time to sift through it all in addition to their regular daily tasks. However, maintaining a solid security posture is absolutely crucial to doing business on the Internet today.