beowulf9
join:2004-06-07
Lovettsville, VA
| 'bot net', really?
Is there any outside verification of the existence of this bot not or do we just have Akamai's word for it? Given the events of the last year and a half there's little reason to believe that corporations tell the truth.
Also, how, exactly, would Akamai "shut down" a distributed bot network? Maybe they have a huge distributed anti-bot bot net. |
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keith2468
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-03
Winnipeg, MB | Is this the first you have heard of bot nets?
They are widely known to exist and have been used to attack less well defended companies. |
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TRiXinMO
@ezdigitalnetwork.net
| reply to beowulf9
www.grc.com.... its easy to shut it down if you are infected. The hardest problem was probably tracing down the ips of the infected server and allowing some one to look at it. You toss on a packet sniffer. Disable the NIC, ENABLE the nic. then you have the irc server name, channel, password, AND bot naming convention.
I did this before when a machine i had got infected ( the roommate put the machine on the dmz zone for some reason)
you get the cooperation of the irc server operator. problem fixed. |
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beowulf9
join:2004-06-07
Lovettsville, VA | reply to keith2468
Yes, I know what bot nets are. I'm not a clueless newbie.
My skepticism is directed at Akamai. Has there been any third-party confirmation that the outage was actually caused by a bot net rather than their own incompetence? |
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