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RSS botnetFireEye: Taking the Botnet Threat Seriously
White Paper That threat is the botnet (for networks of bots, or compromised machines), a chimera of multiple functionalities that integrates compound malware threats and a remarkable range of functionality with remote network... [13 Nov 2009]
Storm Worm & Botnet Analysis
White Paper When worm is running, it unpacks itself first, and then drops a malicious PE file that is embedded in the executable file. Then, it decrypts the malicious PE file into heap memory. When these steps are complete, the worm jumps to the... [13 Nov 2009]
Building a Better Spam Trap: Choosing the Best Defense for Tomorrow's Emerging Email Threats
White Paper SonicWALL Anti-Spam/Email Security solutions apply an integrated multi-layered approach to protect organizations from inbound spam, phishing and email-borne malware, as well as from outbound data leaks and botnet... [13 Nov 2009]
Automatically Generating Models for Botnet Detection
White Paper A botnet is a network of compromised hosts that is under the control of a single, malicious entity, often called the botmaster. This paper presents a system that aims to detect bots, independent of any prior information... [12 Nov 2009]
Understanding and Blocking the New Botnets
White Paper This paper explains how botnets have traditionally worked, then contrasts the established model with startling botnet innovations that emerged in 2007 and are continuing to evolve. Botnets are widely regarded as the top... [12 Nov 2009]
Defeating IRC Bots on the Internal Network
White Paper This paper describes the process of setting up an IRC honeypot on the network - using minimal resources and requiring little maintenance - which can then be used as an early warning system for botnet activity. [12 Nov 2009]
McAfee Avert Labs Top 10 Threat Predictions for 2008
White Paper Storm Worm) grew into the largest Peer-to-Peer (P2P) botnet to date, while TJ Max revealed the largest data breach in history. As 2007 comes to a close, it's a good time to reflect on the current threat landscape. [12 Nov 2009]
Towards Complete Node Enumeration in a Peer-to-Peer Botnet
White Paper Modern advanced botnets may employ a decentralized peer-to-peer overlay network to bootstrap and maintain their command and control channels, making them more resilient to traditional mitigation efforts such as server incapacitation. [11 Nov 2009]
A Social Mechanism for Supporting Home Computer Security
White Paper Hackers have learned to leverage the enormous number of poorly protected home computers by turning them into a large distributed system (known as a botnet), making home computers an important frontier for security research. [11 Nov 2009]
Botnets and your Business
White Paper This MessageLabs White Paper looks at the botnet threat and how it has evolved into a serious danger to business. It also gives a snapshot of botnet activity based on data gathered by MessageLabs from... [19 Oct 2009]
Your Botnet Is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover
White Paper This paper reports on efforts to take control of the Torpig botnet and study its operations for a period of ten days. While botnets have been "Hijacked" and studied previously, the Torpig botnet exhibits... [02 Oct 2009]
The Gestalt Approach to IT Security Takes Shape
White Paper In fact, most of today's threats are blended, meaning that an exploit might enter a corporation through e-mail, then pass through the web which ends up having botnet traffic that eventually infects a client and phones... [30 Aug 2009]
Botnet finds a home on Twitter
News A Twitter account can be used as the command centre for harnessing a "botnet" of virus-infected computers, security firms Arbor Networks and Symantec reported. But in this case, the Twittering botnet... [17 Aug 2009]
Threat Management: Focus on Malicious URLs
White Paper Enticed to click on these malicious links by persuasive social engineering, users are unknowingly succumbing to information theft, participation in a larger botnet, and other nefarious activities. At the heart of many... [15 Aug 2009]
How to Defend Against New Botnets
White Paper Our latest industry whitepaper, "How to Defend Against New Botnet Attacks" aims to help you understand: Recent changes in Botnet activity According to Symantec's MessageLabs Intelligence, botnets were... [14 Aug 2009]
