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Rise of the Small Botnet

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the we-are-legion dept.

wiredmikey writes "Botnets controlled by criminal enterprises all over the world continue to multiply at a steep rate, and it is now arguably the smaller, harder-to-trace operations that organizations should be the most worried about. Not only are smaller botnets cheaper and easier to build out and operate, but criminals have already realized that large-scale botnet activity attracts unwanted attention, and not just of law enforcement."

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  1. Re:Spread of intrusion? by ThePromenader · · Score: 1, Informative

    LOL - logarithm == internal cronjob. Anomaly detection/alerts.

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  2. Re:Spread of intrusion? by MyLongNickName · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm posting from ThePromenader's unmonitored servers.

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  3. Dude, you need to break out your dictionary by sean.peters · · Score: 2, Informative

    The word you're looking for is "algorithm". A "logarithm" is a number that you get by taking the exponent of a number from a certain base. For example the "common" (base 10) logarithm of 1000 is 3. What your machine is doing has nothing to do with this.