Whitehats tackle The Great Botnet Dilemma
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| After infiltrating one of the biggest and most abusive known botnets,
| security researchers are wrestling with a thorny ethical dilemma: should they
| exorcise tens of thousands of possessed machines or simply leave them be?
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| For the moment, there appears to be an internal difference of opinion at
| TippingPoint. Amini and Pierce are both in favor of removing the bots, a move
| that in a single keystroke would likely make the machines run better and,
| more importantly, would rid the internet of 25,000 spam-barfing machines.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/29/kraken_botnet_infiltrated/
25,000 is peanuts. 320,000,000 PCs are compromised. You take down 25,000
machines and another 25,000 show up somewhere else. It's a losing game. The
Internet (and banking... and governments... and military... and healthcare) is
only at the mercy of Windows botmasters.
Recent:
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/2008-03-16-computer-botnets_N.htm
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