Botnets can be used for a variety of maleficent intentions, ranging from generating massive volumes of spam to orchestrating denial-of-service attacks to instigating brute force security attacks against hardened systems. Even more troubling is the fact that botnets are on a growth pattern and are used as avenues to perpetuate fraud, steal intellectual property and damage the reputations of the victims.Efforts to bring down botnets normally fall under the purview of law enforcement agencies and are often focused on taking down command and control servers. However, that is akin to closing the barn door after the horse has run off. Simply put, law enforcement’s efforts to kill botnets come too late to protect the initial victims. In many cases, authorities work with experts from security companies and other organizations to identify botnets; law enforcement then works to seize servers and arrest perpetrators. “Such efforts can be effective, but they are after the fact, and in any case, such servers can eventually be replaced” said Alana Maurushat, a professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and director of the university’s Cyberspace Law and Policy Center. In other words, relying on others to protect your network from a… Read full this story
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