Taiwan gets free malware database

2013-09-02

Helen Martin

Virus Bulletin, UK

Editor: Helen Martin

Abstract

Public malware database launched in a bid to help boost cybersecurity.

A free, publicly available malware database has been launched by Taiwan's National Centre for High Performance Computing (NCHC) in a bid to help businesses, academics and researchers boost the nation's cybersecurity.

Taiwan suffers some 3.4 million attacks each day, and is one of the world's top sources of attack traffic (ranking seventh in the world in terms of sources of global attack traffic in Akamai's State of the Internet report for the first quarter of 2013).

The Malware Knowledge Base already contains around 200,000 malware samples, and more than 1,000 are being added each month. Businesses, academics and ordinary citizens are invited to apply for access to the database via the Malware Knowledge Base website.

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