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Oct 14 2009   8:55PM GMT

Nuke and pave to eradicate botnets



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Security researcher Gunter Ollmann of Damballa discusses the scourge of dangerous enterprise botnets and why the only method to eradicate them is by a method he calls “nuke and pave.”

 
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May 13 2009   6:25PM GMT

Botnet threats and countermeasures



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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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