Comments on: Biggest Botnet: Technical Details on Hexzone http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/04/biggest-botnet-technical-details-on-hexzone/ A weblog dedicated to educating the community on security threats that matter Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:00:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: blah http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/04/biggest-botnet-technical-details-on-hexzone/comment-page-1/#comment-206946 blah Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:42:16 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/?p=914#comment-206946 Why give these things cool names? Microsoft always refers to attackers in the feminine and you should do the same. So this would be something like... "douchebag net". Also, not good of Finjan to keep this to themselves so they'd have something to present at RSA. Why give these things cool names? Microsoft always refers to attackers in the feminine and you should do the same. So this would be something like… “douchebag net”.

Also, not good of Finjan to keep this to themselves so they’d have something to present at RSA.

]]> By: Gunter Ollmann http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/04/biggest-botnet-technical-details-on-hexzone/comment-page-1/#comment-206562 Gunter Ollmann Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:14:24 +0000 http://asert.arbornetworks.com/?p=914#comment-206562 One problem with this "Biggest Botnet" is that, apart from some totals within an HTML-based Web portal, I'm missing any real sizing information. Any botnets I know that approximate that kind of size are well known and well covered... which is why I have doubts about the sizing. I blogged about the sizing aspect of the botnet and why I wouldn't necessarily trust a Web portal figure earlier this week -- "Caution over counting numbers in CnC Portals" -- http://blog.damballa.com/?p=157 One problem with this “Biggest Botnet” is that, apart from some totals within an HTML-based Web portal, I’m missing any real sizing information. Any botnets I know that approximate that kind of size are well known and well covered… which is why I have doubts about the sizing.

I blogged about the sizing aspect of the botnet and why I wouldn’t necessarily trust a Web portal figure earlier this week — “Caution over counting numbers in CnC Portals” — http://blog.damballa.com/?p=157

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