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Observing Botnets with Honeynets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the know-thine-enemy dept.

Susan Saradon writes "The Honeynet Project has released a new paper which deals with the observation of botnets. "Know Your Enemy: Tracking Botnets" discusses what Botnets are, who is using them, how, and why. It als introduces the tools "mwcollect" and "drone" which can be used for collecting an tracking Botnet activity. Nice to read and looking forward to the release of these tools."

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  1. Are these BotNets responsible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant


    for the massive amounts of (l4m3rz) SSH brute force attempts i keep seeing on my box