Cambridge Professor Warns of Skype Botnet Threat

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

I see Jon's busy stirring things up. :-)

Via TechWorld.

[snip]

Voice-over-IP apps could be used to cloak networks of zombies, used to launch denial of service attacks, a Cambridge 
professor has warned.

Armies of ordinary PCs - "botnets" - that have been infected by a virus and put under malicious control, could be 
controlled and orchestrated by messages hidden in VoIP traffic generated by programs such as Skype, warned Jon 
Crowcroft, Marconi professor of communications systems at Cambridge University.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5232

- ferg


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