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Tools To Squash the Botnets
Roland Piquepaille writes "This is the intention of Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wants to build a new line of defense against malicious traffic which has become today a billion-dollar 'shadow industry.' As one of 'the most menacing aspects of botnets is that they can go largely undetected' by a PC owner, he developed a new computer security technique for detecting network intrusions. His system has a 99.9% detection rate of malicious signatures, roughly equivalent to some of the best commercial systems. But it has zero false positives when commercial systems have high numbers. This new system could soon be available commercially."
When the easiest way to DDoS someone's site is to have the zombie army keep hitting the pages ... how will any tool identify or protect you from that threat?
The zombies can simply flood your pipeline. There are that many of them.
People still have to install it and use it, correct? If so, then why do we believe there aren't going to continue to be hundreds of thousands to millions of users out there who don't give a damn, like there currently are? How is this much of an improvement over the current state of things?