Nice article by Dennis Fisher on “The Root of the Botnet Epidemic” at
http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/root-botnet-epidemic-113009.
Starting from a historical overview of the situation around the turn of the century, with the first DDoS attacks, Mafiaboy, trinoo, stachedraht and all that, with copious quotes from Joe Stewart and Jose Nazario.
Should be an interesting series.
David Harley FBCS CITP CISSP
Chief Operations Officer, AVIEN
Director of Malware Intelligence, ESET
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