The World's Biggest Botnets

ancientribe writes "There's a new peer-to-peer based botnet emerging that could blow the notorious Storm away in size and sophistication, according to researchers, and it's a direct result of how Storm has changed the botnet game, with more powerful and wily botnets on the horizon. This article provides a peek at the 'new Storm' and reveals the three biggest botnets in the world (including Storm) — and what makes them tick and what they are after."

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Relevant?

[Gothmolly]

I have a firewall appliance, and run Linux. I send emails, read Slashdot, and a few hobby phpBB forums. How is this relevant to me?

You missed a few dollah signs

[Anonymous Coward]

No, the heart of the problem i$ that window$, de$pite what MS claim$, wa$ not be de$igned for tho$e people and a$ a re$ult tho$e people make mi$take$.

$oftware i$ $oft, it can be anything we want it to be, and a$$hole$ who claim that "$oftware can't do $oftware related thing$" are lying through their teeth.

If thirty odd year$ ago window$ had been de$igned re$pon$ibly we wouldn't have the me$$ that we have now. Among$t many other thing$ when connected to the net they deliberately confu$ed $tatic data with executable$ and deliberately ran all program$ a$ admini$trator. Thing$ that mainframe O$' and Unix had under$tood and $olved decade$ before. I can remember the very fir$t time I $aw a web page with an executable and thinking "you $tupid fucking idiot$". The ramification$ were obviou$ right from the $tart; MS ju$t cho$e to ignore them.

The marketing para$ite$, and their pat$ie$, who to thi$ day continue to claim that window$ wa$ not a large part of the problem are lying ar$ehole$. MS i$ $lowly improving their $ecurity but they $till have a long, long way to go with a culture that $till trie$ to te$t for $ecurity rather than building for it. And ye$, de$pite what $ome idiot$ claim, $ecurity and u$er friendline$$ are not mutually contradictory. In fact they are more complimentary than contradictory with well built $ecurity $y$tem$ helping u$er$ to make good choice$ for their own $afety a$ well a$ everybody el$e'$.

Re:Microsoft isn't the only irresponsible company

[Joe U]

I have some issues with DD-WRT closing parts of the source. (Last time I checked you couldn't build DD-WRT from the source given, FWIW I don't check often)

Re:I got it from Business Week Re:"You microtards"

[Erris]

you're obviously using the term "microtard" to refer to the person you replied to because he holds an opinion different to yours on this issue

I'll call anyone a MicroTard if they think M$ security issues are the user's fault. Half a minute's reflection should convince anyone that this is not so. People like you can blame the user all day, but that won't make it so.

I assume that you won't object people referring to you with terms like "flosstard" or "lintard"

"FreeTard" would be more appropriate if free software were not the fastest software available for most machines, or if free software advocates had something other than reason to force people to use free software or about a thousand other differences between free software and non free software were not true. But Dedazo, I don't care what you call me because you are an idiot.

Re:Note total absence of word "Microsoft"

[Score Whore]

You can't name a single consumer OS that prevents the user from running software that connects to the internet.

I assume, like much of slashdot, you are completely unaware of what SELinux is designed to do and indeed can do in Fedora 8 etc.

I assume, like much of slashdot, you are completely unaware of the definition of the word consumer.