A Botnet by Any Other Name

A Botnet by Any Other Name
Gunter Ollmann, 2009-05-01

The news has been awash the last few weeks with fears over globe-spanning botnets and their criminal intent: Conficker managed to hog the limelight for well over a month, and then came Finjan's disclosure of a previously unknown — and currently unnamed — botnet consisting of some 1.9 million malicious agents.

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A Botnet by Any Other Name 2009-05-19
Liran chen (1 replies)

it is understandable that we can not name a botnet due to it's nature to mutate...
the question we have to ask our self as a security research industry is if we learned something from decade of A/V battle on naming conventions.

does the Botnet Research community is going to build a common databa...

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Re: A Botnet by Any Other Name 2009-05-29
Shane Coursen

Gunter -- Excellent ideal, still not a possibility IMHO. See my SecurityFocus article dated 2001-07-09 and titled What's In A Name?

It's an old article, but still very applicable....

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A Botnet by Any Other Name 2009-06-12
Anonymous

I think that naming conventions of Botnets is somewhat a moot point. You even say in your article it's not really possible... I agree that some sort of consolidated effort be made internationally... however I believe this is of lesser concern than actually learning how to better track Botnets themse...

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A Botnet by Any Other Name 2009-06-12
BotBlaster

After years of helping administrators of many servers fight off bots that have been planted on their servers, I have come to the conclusion that the U.S. governemnt (from my personal experience) has no understanding of how widespread botnets are. We cannot act as if this is a new technology, it has ...

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