Botnet Predictions for 2011

Sorry for the fear-mongering here but, forewarned is (hopefully) forearmed.

Dark Reading has published a report summarizing the findings of several researchers that monitor botnets (that pesky collection of infected computers controlled by criminals to send spam) and their activity. A decline in the volume of spam at the end of 2010 (link to Brian Krebs article) has left some of the researchers scratchin' their heads. What are these guys up to?

In their security blog, security researchers at Dasient have itemized their predictions for 2011. Interesting insight into the internet criminal 'industry' and how they operate as a business and not individuals.

While I'm here, this is an article from Brian Krebs about the commercialization of hacker exploit kits. Anyone can buy a exploit kit and become a hacker. So who's hacking who? There is some speculation that the 'professional' criminals are conning the hacker wannabes into installing the pro's stuff for them via these exploit kits

And finally, as usual, the folks at Sunbelt (now called GFI Labs) have a lot of interesting reading about hacker's tricks in various forms....good read.

That's about it for January. I've been really busy working on my Garage Solutions website preparing for my retirement. (Don't worry, I'll still be available).

Regards, Tom

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