Botnet threats and countermeasures

AT&T Labs’ Brian Rexroad shares how the telecommunications giant detects and defends its network against botnets. Rexroad talks about the most prevalent botnets being monitored, including Conficker, how privacy concerns strain detection and eradication efforts and explains how future technologies could be used to battle the cybercriminals behind the threat. Rexroad is principal architect at AT&T Labs.

 

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