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FBI Releases Results of Operation Bot Roast

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the notification-flagged-as-spam-and-deleted dept.

coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has released the findings of their recent botnet study and have identified over 1 million botnet crime victims. "The FBI is working with industry partners, including the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, to notify the victim owners of the computers. Microsoft and the Botnet Task Force have also helped out the FBI. Through this process the FBI may uncover additional incidents in which botnets have been used to facilitate other criminal activity, the FBI said in a statement.Bots are widely recognized as one of the top scourges of the industry. Gartner predicts that by year-end 75% of enterprises 'will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded traditional perimeter and host defenses.'"

3 of 189 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Botnet by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 0, Troll
    Botnets were never a problem until Microsoft Windows became ubiquitous. That and the fact that Microsoft Windows is a huge security hole, is what has allowed the botnets and spam to proliferate.

    If all Microsoft machines were disconnected from the Internet, the problems disappear.

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  2. M$ by asninn · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft and the Botnet Task Force have also helped out the FBI.

    Yes, it's true - without microsoft, this wouldn't have been possible.

    Think about it...

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  3. Re:Botnet by bit01 · · Score: 0, Troll
    Botnets became a problem as full-time internet access by unsophisticated home users became more ubiquitous, and Windows was the primary target because it was the main OS used by the targeted users

    M$ marketing historical revisionism. M$ was irresponsible enough to put a totally unprotected OS onto the wider net. Most early viruses were not social engineered. M$ should've been sued. They only got away with it because of lying marketers covering up. Only with NT did they even start doing any security at all and only with XPSP2 did they actually start doing anything real and start catching up to Unix standards that had been in accepted practice 30 years before.

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    Astroturfing "marketers" are liars, fraudulently misrepresenting company propaganda as objective third party opinion.