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Microsoft Readying Massive Real Time Threat Intelligence Feed
chicksdaddy wrote in with a link to a story about a Microsoft project that will share security information in real time with customers and law enforcement. The article reads "Microsoft has proven that it can take down huge, global botnets like Kelihos, Rustock and Waldec. Now the company is ready to start making the data it acquires in those busts available to governments, law enforcement and customers as a real time threat intelligence feed. Representatives from the Redmond, Washington software maker told an audience at the International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) here that it was testing a new service to distribute threat data from captured botnets and other sources to partners, including foreign governments, Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) and private corporations."
Internet Storm Center. Apparently it has been up for quite a while. What bright lights of wonder Microsoft hides under their bushel! I wonder what else there is.
Help stamp out iliturcy.
Son - you've got other problems if you're on a bot net.
99 problems but a bot net ain't one.
wow, you sure posted a positive comment about microsoft as a first post again, huh! We know about you and will call you out every time you shit up a thread.
Not to sideline the reality of this being very questionable, or how this has nothing to do with botnet owners right? Please stop the shillposts and work for someone other than MS. even having you on enemy isn't enough.
If you've failed to secure your computer then you've waived your right to privacy
Uh, no.
According to your "logic," or in this case lack thereof, if you leave the doors to your home or car unlocked, you've 'waived your right to privacy,' i.e. government agents are free to ransack your belongings, place surveillance devices in and around your home/car, take what they like, et. al. Fortunately for all Americans (even the stupid ones), we have a number of Constitutional rights and amendments that protect us from that sort of mentality.
Not only is that an ignorant way to view the world, it's incredibly dangerous to those of us who actually value our privacy, but don't want to live in a constant state of paranoid escalation, in which the only way to have even a modicum of privacy is to continually waste money on bigger and better locks. That's the sort of shit thought process that results in people getting sued by peeping toms for walking around the privacy of their own homes nude.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
wouldn't it be advantageous if they can tell what botnet behaviours are picked up by the detection tools in real time?
1. Some "criminal" bot net grabs my private data.
2. Microsoft infiltrates bot net.
3. Microsoft hands the data to government in real time. They are not responsible on what the data contains.
4. Government has my data legally ?
Does this not sound like the police getting criminals to do their dirty work ?
What would be the intensive to bring down the bot ?
How do I know who set up the original bot ?
Should I trust Microsoft ?
Should I trust the government ?