The Dark Cloud: Understanding and Defending against Botnets and Stealthy Malware

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Botnets are the latest scourge to hit the Internet and this article defines a botnet (a collection of distributed computers or systems that has been taken over by rogue software), examines the botnet life cycle, and presents several promising anti-botnet defense strategies including canary detectors, white lists, and malware traces.

•  By  Jaideep Chandrashekar, Carl Livadas, Steve Orrin, and Eve Schooler on Aug 04, 2009,
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