Re: Bad Idea of The Week: 'Friendly Botnets'

["Hubbard, Dan" <dhubbard () websense com>]

What, this is a great idea and should be tied directly into MSofts
upcoming P2P patch update system ;-)



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Subject: [funsec] Bad Idea of The Week: 'Friendly Botnets'

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Via New Scientist.

[snip]

Beating the "botnets" - armies of infected computers used to attack
websites - requires borrowing tactics from the bad guys, say computer
security researchers.

A team at the University of Washington, US, want to marshal swarms of
good
computers to neutralise the bad ones. They say their plan would be cheap
to
implement and could cope with botnets of any size.

Current countermeasures are being outstripped by the growing size of
botnets, says the Washington team, but assembling swarms of good
computers
in defense could render DDoS attacks obsolete.

Their system, called Phalanx, uses its own large network of computers to
shield the protected server. Instead of the server being accessed
directly,
all information must pass through the swarm of "mailbox" computers.

A paper on Phalanx was presented at the USENIX symposium on Networked
Systems Design and Implementation, held last week in San Francisco, US.

[snip]

More:
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13753-to-defeat-a-malicious
-bo
tnet-build-a-friendly-one.html

- - ferg

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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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