Security Management Strategies for the CIOAccess "Invasion Force"
This article is part of the March 2005 issue of What are botnets and how can you prepare for them?
EXPOSE Botnets are sweeping across the digital frontier. Prepare to repel the horde. Evolution: Rise of the Bots Channel Wars Bots were created in the early 1990s by IRC users who wanted to protect and defend against "net split" attacks, among other tasks. While attackers were using bots to knock IRC users out of their favorite channels and deny them access to their user names, the users fought back with their own bots to preserve the integrity of user names and to keep channel access open. Open Floodgates By 1999, an arsenal of nascent DDoS tools had emerged: Trinoo, Tribe Flood Network, Stacheldraht and Shaft. These tools, which were used to launch attacks against IRC hosts, were only semi-automatic, required significant manual tuning, and didn't use IRC for communications. Canadian hacker MafiaBoy used these types of tools in his 2000 attacks that brought down Yahoo!, eBay, CNN and Amazon.com Web sites. Automated Animation In 2000, the need for automation and larger compromised networks led bot developers to merge their DDoS tools with worms and Trojan ... Access >>>
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