The Battle Against Botnets (And What You Can Do)
While battling botnets sounds like an early ‘90s computer game, the kind that would have you jamming on the joystick while digitized Beethoven came muffling through your speakers, rest assured that battling botnets is actually a very contemporary undertaking, one that is growing increasingly important with each passing day. We have now reached a point where the DDoS attacks coming from botnets are severe enough to be considered an act of war, and dangerous enough to leave hundreds of thousands of people without power. No wonder the US government has issued a report on what needs to be done in the battle against botnets. An ugly evolution Distributed denial of…
German Users’ Data Compromised Due to Botnet Malware Attack
16 million German users suffered from a Botnet malware attack whose digital identities had been stolen. The data was linked with Facebook accounts, mail accounts, Amazon accounts, and other online services. The attack was revealed when Germany's Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) ran a Botnet analysis.
