[wplug] Be afraid ... interesting research on botnets

[Philip Reiche]

Or a couple of boxes of 9mm ammo .... (grin)

>>> gregsim at telerama.com 03/15/05 2:48 PM >>>
When is somebody (I guess some Govt agency) going to actually DO
something 
about these attacks?  It seems like that these huge zombie networks
could be 
broken up with a bit of concerted effort.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Moran" <wmoran at potentialtech.com>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:33 PM
Subject: [wplug] Be afraid ... interesting research on botnets


>
> I thought this was a fascinating report:
> http://www.honeynet.org/papers/bots/
>
> Some interesting highlights ... after setting up a honeypot to allow
> crooks to set up botnets and monitor their activity, they frequently
> witnessed networks of tens of thousands of zombies connecting.  They
> found hacked IRC servers specifically designed to control zombie
networks
> of up to 80,000 nodes.
>
> Pretty scary.
>
> -- 
> Bill Moran
> Potential Technologies
> http://www.potentialtech.com
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