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Tag Archives: botnets
ABCs for ISPs
Today, an important step was taken in the fight against badware on consumer devices in the U.S. An advisory group to the Federal Communications Commission known as CSRIC III voted unanimously to release the U.S. Anti-Bot Code of Conduct for … Continue reading
What’s in a name?
One of the most interesting aspects of yesterday’s announcement of another botnet takedown engineered by Microsoft was the naming of the owners of the .cz.cc domain in their lawsuit. …this case highlights an industry-wide problem pertaining to the use of … Continue reading
Tagged botnets, microsoft, subdomains, takedowns
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Recommended reading
In the past couple months, we’ve come across some particularly informative and well-written reports and articles about badware. Here, for your reading pleasure, are a few of our favorites: Botnets: Measurement, Detection, Disinfection and Defence by Daniel Plohmann, et. al. … Continue reading
The Coreflood takedown: building a better, broader botnet response
Wednesday’s court-sanctioned takedown of the Coreflood botnet by the Department of Justice and the FBI has made big headlines in badware news. This is the second high-profile takedown to make it through the U.S. court system in as many months; … Continue reading
Tagged botnets, coreflood, stopbadware, takedowns
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A Novel Legal Tool in the Fight Against Botnets
The following is a guest blog post by David Kleban, a Fall 2010 Cyberlaw Clinic Student at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. Significant amounts of spam, malware, and phishing scams are propagated via botnets—networks of … Continue reading
New bots, more badware sites?
In recent weeks, a new worm known as Conficker/Downadup has been making the rounds, turning many (reportedly millions) of PCs into bots. At the same time, the number of badware sites Google has reported to us has been steadily increasing, … Continue reading
Tagged botnets, google, stopbadware
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Outrageous EULA – from a botnet vendor
The “Symantec Security Response blog”:http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2008/04/copyright_violations_in_the_un.html today features a bizarre end user license agreement (EULA) – not for a legitimate piece of software, but for a bot builder sold in the criminal black market. Many of the restrictions the bot vendor … Continue reading
