November 19, 2009, 2:25PM

Tips for Diminishing Botnet Attacks

Online, the biggest battle these days is against botnets: networks of infected computers which hackers can use -- unbeknownst to the machine's owner -- for online crimes including sending out spam or launching a denial of service attack. The black-hat techniques employed to snare users into a botnet web have evolved to a level that makes them often undetectable by even the most sophisticated security products. Combine that with a lack of user knowledge, and the threat of infection becomes very high. Read the full article. [CSOonline.com]


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