Paul Vixie On DNS Changer: We're Dealing With Malware the Wrong Way

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @01:27AM from the should-be-using-branding-irons dept.

AlistairCharlton writes with this snippet: "Victims of the DNS Changer malware think they have better things to do than check their internet security, and as a digital society we're dealing with malware in completely the wrong way. These are the thoughts of Paul Vixie who worked with the FBI in intercepting servers used by a gang of Estonian hackers who made millions of dollars from redirecting internet users away from the websites they requested, directing them to advertisements instead." The linked article also offers an interesting description of how the FBI's quiet takeover of a botnet came to be.

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Correct link to cited Vixie post by wkcole · 2012-07-10 01:55 · Score: 5, Informative

As has become all too common the /. summary is linked to a negative-added-value article at the totally worthless IBT.
Paul's actual post is at CircleID: http://www.circleid.com/posts/20120327_dns_changer/ and is over 3 months old. Not news. As is normal for Paul it is well written and smart but if you've been following DNSChanger, you've read this already.