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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.
99 problems but a bot net ain't one.
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 ?