I may regret this, but one thing I can’t abide is second-hand smoke. I haven’t seen one sane thought about the Comcast BitTorrent “fiasco” yet. The “people’s” argument is as follows: Axiom 1: Internet access should be unhindered. I want to buy my Internet service from Comcast for $xx.yy per month; where x is min(x). [...]
In the past few weeks I’ve been looking at a lot of DDoS botnets, specifically HTTP botnets. Today I’m pleased to release a report on one of the network of botnets I’ve been looking at, based on the BlackEnergy toolkit. From the summary of the paper: BlackEnergy is an HTTP-based botnet used primarily for DDoS [...]
A few things on my reading list for today … The first is a three part series on crimeware (malware specifically designed to yield money for the operators of the malware through direct financial theft) by CSO magazine. It’s an interesting look and shows that the underground economy is just as skilled as the fully [...]
