While it is possible for malware protection within a computer network to do this work, the best practice is to detect and isolate a problem at the network boundary using a NGFW before it can reach the computer network.

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The hackers installed malware which enabled them to access any computer using the New York Times network, steal the password of every employee, and access 53 personal computers, mostly outside the Times offices.

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He was arrested in 2011 and charged in a scheme in which he allegedly logged into the computer network at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and using it to download millions of academic journal articles from a database called JSTOR, owned by a nonprofit group.

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Shahis Ramzan is accused of using a network of companies linked to Cortachy Wholesales Limited trading in computer parts, mobile phones and accessories.

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People generate or "mine" Bitcoins by participating in that network - for instance, by solving a complicated mathematical problem using their computer.

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All told, Kaspersky Lab said that a total of 30, 749, 066 vulnerable programs and files were detected on computers using the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), with an average of 8 different vulnerabilities detected on each affected computer.

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