[95068] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: botnets: web servers, end-systems and Vint Cerf [LONG, sorry]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie)
Wed Feb 21 01:39:47 2007
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 06:32:14 GMT
To: ge@linuxbox.org
Cc: rsk@gsp.org, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
>And this is before we get into the academic off-topic discussion of wha=
t a
>bot actually is, which after almost 11 years of dealing with these I fi=
nd
>difficult to define. Is it an IP address? A computer? Perhaps an instan=
ce
>of a bot (and every machine could have even hundreds).
>
>Welcome to the realm of Internet security operations and the different
>groups and folks involved (and now industry). It is about Internet
>security rather than this or that network security or this and that sam=
ple
>detection.
Interestingly enough, I discovered during my trip to Tokyo this
week that the Japanese government is _mandating_ that the national
ISPs address the botnet problem, specifically.
I'm still gathering details on the framework -- which is still
being defined, if I'm not mistaken -- but I applaud them for
taking the lead in this regard.
If they are even marginally successful, I hope it will be an
example for others around the world to stop making excuses and
begin addressing the problem.
- - ferg
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Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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