[92574] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [da] news: Trend Micro launches anti-botnet service
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (brett watson)
Tue Sep 26 02:36:38 2006
In-Reply-To: <4518A6BD.9090006@utc.edu>
From: brett watson <brett@the-watsons.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 23:35:48 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sep 25, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Jeff Kell wrote:
>>
>> Well, a prefix hijack either means a router has been pwned, as I
>> suggested,
>> or a router is (as Governor Tarkin put it) "far too trusting" of
>> its peers.
>>
>> And anyhow, I was speaking of BGP flaps in the context of botnets
>> - has anybody
>> seen an in-the-wild botnet that played BGP games?
>
> No, but playing some BGP games could certainly help to *mitigate*
> them.
> Turn the C&C list into a community. I've thrown the idea around
> several
> times but can't get any takers...
been there, tried that:
http://www.mainnerve.com/security/darknet.html
-b
