RE: Expert slams outlandish hacker claims

[InfoSec News <isn () c4i org>]

Forwarded from: David Watson <David.Watson () ioko com>

Following Lance's comment, an example botnet control method:

http://botnet.sourceforge.net

A example of a massive recent co-ordinated botnet attack:

http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/1573551
http://zine.dal.net/previousissues/issue22/letter-from-the-editor.php

Press coverage of the Honeynet's botnet analysis:

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/security/story/0,2000048600,20273555-1,
00.htm

Thanks,

David

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: InfoSec News [mailto:isn () c4i org]
> Sent: 01 July 2003 12:08
> To: isn () attrition org
> Subject: Re: [ISN] Expert slams outlandish hacker claims
>
> Forwarded from: Lance Spitzner <lance () honeynet org>
>
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, InfoSec News wrote:
>
> > But Barrett, technical director at Information Risk Management,
> > questioned how any hacker could own 600 computers at any one time.
> >
> >  From his experience working with the police, he said that hackers
> > typically control no more than 12 systems at any time.
> >
> > "The sheer mechanics of 600 computers - no. How can you control 600
> > computers?" he said.
>
> *sigh*
>
>        http://www.honeynet.org/scans/scan27/
>
> lance



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