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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Gadi Evron <[email protected]> wrote: >And this is before we get into the academic off-topic discussion of what a >bot actually is, which after almost 11 years of dealing with these I find >difficult to define. Is it an IP address? A computer? Perhaps an instance >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 sample >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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFF2+dhq1pz9mNUZTMRAhd9AJ9FqULfYzAXzwlhSRdrU2a5Xd5frwCcDedO XAQipmVgJwGfqq34fANSy7w= =mAC6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
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