Tag Archives for cybersecurity
Crashing the Mega-D Botnet
Paraphrasing Bruce Sterling, this took down an eastern European economy with it. Quoting at length from PCWorld: The bots receive marching orders from online command and control (C&C) servers, but those servers are the botnet’s Achilles’ heel: Isolate them, and … Continue reading
DECAF VS. COFEE
Wired. The hacker tool, dubbed DECAF, is designed to counteract the Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor, aka COFEE. The latter is a suite of 150 bundled, off-the-shelf forensic tools that run from a script. Microsoft combined the programs into a portable tool that … Continue reading
CyberCzar
Mike’s getting a lot of traction today (measured by Digg, Techmeme) on the cyber czar resignation. Nice! -Shlok Sign up for my newsletter.