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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)
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
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