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]

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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