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Botnet Expert Wants 'Special Ops' Security Teams
CWmike writes "Criminal cybergangs must be harried, hounded and hunted until they're driven out of business, a noted botnet researcher said as he prepared to pitch a new anti-malware strategy at the RSA Conference in SF. 'We need a new approach to fighting cybercrime,' said Joe Stewart, director of SecureWorks' counterthreat unit. 'What we're doing now is not making a significant dent.' He said teams of paid security researchers should set up like a police department's major crimes unit or a military special operations team, perhaps infiltrating the botnet group and employing a spectrum of disruptive tactics. Stewart cited last November's takedown of McColo as one success story. Another is the Conficker Working Group. 'Criminals are operating with the same risk-effort-reward model of legitimate businesses,' said Stewart. 'If we really want to dissuade them, we have to attack all three of those. Only then can we disrupt their business.'"
A bunch of fat, cheetos eating super hero's I can identify with!
The musings of just another geek and his junk.
We get Dick Cheney to run the computer security task force, give him no oversight and a redacted budget. Then tell him there's oil in the Internet.
I guarantee, all your regulatory problems will mysteriously vanish, just like all of the(*)#(*)@R_ *CARRIER LOST*
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
This still doesn't address drive by exploits, XSS, SQL injections,
True, but I think we could take care of the last one by prohibiting people from taking any legal name that includes the string "); Drop Table"
Information theory is life. The rest is just the KL divergence.
True, but now we know the bad guys suck at backups, too....
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......