If you've been scanning the headlines or watching the evening news, you may have heard that tens of thousands of Internet users in the U.S. - hundreds of thousands around the world - will be cut off from the Internet on Monday, July 9, after servers set up at the bequest of the U.S. government go dark. That's bad, right? Well, maybe not.
Faceless cybercriminals...stealthy malware...thousands of infected systems...an Internet black-out...Most of what you've been reading about the DNSChanger case is wrong, and obscures a bigger (and more cheery) message about our ability to fight global malware outbreaks and scams.