Attack of the zombies (and how to respond)
(24 Feb 2005)
Today's bots are more powerful and sophisticated than the original distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) "zombies" of 2000 -- and therefore much more difficult to defeat. Today's bots-on-steroids can encrypt their communications, employ "Swiss Army knife" feature sets and use peer-to-peer networks to maximize their range and damage. They can scan for hidden vulnerabilities and backdoors, sniff IRC, HTTP and FTP network traffic, harvest e-mails and steal secret passwords.
This webcast reviews next-generation bot features and security-evasion techniques, and explores practical ways for identifying them given their new level of sophistication. Attendees will gain an understanding of:
- How to identify and destroy new bots, such as Phatbot and Agobot
- How bots combine to form "Waste Networks"
- Botnets in action: a step-by-step walk-through with pointers on what to look for at each stage
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