Tools To Squash the Botnets

Roland Piquepaille writes "This is the intention of Paul Barford, a computer scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wants to build a new line of defense against malicious traffic which has become today a billion-dollar 'shadow industry.' As one of 'the most menacing aspects of botnets is that they can go largely undetected' by a PC owner, he developed a new computer security technique for detecting network intrusions. His system has a 99.9% detection rate of malicious signatures, roughly equivalent to some of the best commercial systems. But it has zero false positives when commercial systems have high numbers. This new system could soon be available commercially."

Tools To Squash the Botnets - Squashed

[wap911]

The last line says it "could soon be available commercially". Wonder if I need to start saving pocket change so I can put it on my SimplyMEPIS box? Oh, wait they must be talking about having it run along side of Redmond-warez. nothing here - move on...........

All it needs is just one bit.

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

All packets originating from botnets must set the malicious bit to 1. That is all. Then the system is 100% foolproof.

Re:I don't see that.

[QuantumG]

You stop the machines becoming part of the botnet.

You'd know that if you RTFA.

It's called...

[Eevee1]

Hello Slashdotters! I have made a new invention as well! It's called "Removing Plug from Wall!" With my new invention, nobody will have to worry about botnets, spammers, trolls and those pop-up ads ever again! Until you plug it back in!

One more thing

[Anonymous Coward]

How about certain thing named Common Sense to be added to the list?

Re:I don't see that.

[Penguinshit]

I thought the easiest way was to link them from a Slashdot article.

Talk about a zombie army...

Re:I don't see that.

[Anonymous Coward]

I couldn't RTFA. The Slashdot zombie army killed the site.

Re:I don't see that.

[Anpheus]

The irony is that none of us really intend to read the article anyway, we just see the underlined shiny text and click out of habit.

Re:Not only that, but there are NO details.

[skoaldipper]

A huckster in our midst? Let's see.

"Botnets represent a convergence of all of the other threats that have existed for some time,"

Scared of rickets? You, sir. Step right up here.

One of the most menacing aspects of botnets is that they can go largely undetected by the owner of a personal computer.

Folks, you might not feel sick today, but that's no guarantee you won't feel sick tomorrow.

Nemean is based on four distinct patents that are either filed or are in process with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).

No matter what ails ya, Professor Nemean's original. medicinal, remedial, compound exlixir is patented and irrevocably guaranteed to...

The innovation with Nemean is a method to automatically generate intrusion signatures, making the detection process faster and more precise.

boost your bends, target your temperature, and positively palliate your particulars. Yes, folks...

"The technology we're developing here really has the potential to transform the face of network security,"

this age-defying, mystifying, wiz bang fandangle will cure everything from flakey skin to original sin.

Only two bits a bottle. Worth a dollar a drop! Step right up! Step right up!

Re:I don't see that.

[Anonymous Coward]

I was praying to JESUS that no aliens would invade my home last night and guess what... none did!

May whoever modded that down, rot in metamoderation hell.

Praying to Jesus isn't any different than praying to the company that wrote your virus scanner, except that praying to Jesus may work sometimes.