Security Fix: Bot-Slaying ISP Hall of Fame

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

Brian Krebs:

[snip]

"Botnets" -- large armies of hijacked personal computers that bad guys
use for everything from spamming to knocking Web sites offline -- are a
constant security threat to business and home users alike. Disabling
the online communications channels that cyber criminals use to control
these drone armies is no easy feat, as more than a million individual
bots are enslaved by virus writers each month. But some Internet
service providers (ISPs) do a far better job than others at disrupting
these networks, and as such deserve special attention for their efforts.

Enter the folks at Shadowserver.org -- a group of volunteer security
junkies who purposefully infect their own computers with new hacker
code each day in order to track down and infiltrate botnets and report
details to ISPs about the most active and pernicious botnets on their
networks. Shadowserver this week launched its "Hall of Fame" page,
naming Comcast Corp. and a handful of other ISPs large and small as the
most responsive in slaying botnet control channels.

[snip]

More here:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/07/botslaying_isp_hall_of_fame_1.html

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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