-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -- Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> 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/