Zeus Botnet Down But Not Out 67
harryjohnston writes "The Register points out that the takedown of a significant number of Zeus command-and-control servers, which we discussed earlier, was a short-lived victory, as about one-third of the affected servers were back on the net in less than 48 hours." Adds itwbennet: "Just hours after network connectivity to Troyak was severed the ISP peered with a new upstream Internet service provider named Ya. The next step will be to 'de-peer' Troyak from its new service provider, either an ISP named Nassist or its upstream provider, Hurricane Electric, said a researcher familiar with the matter. 'We have taken some of their territory, they are trying to out flank us,' the researcher said via IM. 'We are going to win this one — we have 'em boxed in.'"
Re:Redundancy (Score:5, Insightful)
This is actually informative. Botnets are the very model of enterprise redundant high-availability. The technology is remarkable in its resilience. You could wipe out Europe and Asia with dual asteroids, and the thing would keep going.
If you want to keep your enterprise up no matter what happens then you need to be prepared for a headshot. They are, and it's not enough to bring them down. How prepared are you?
Re:Maybe now is good time to start building wall (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Botnets (Score:3, Insightful)
They are ingrained and famous to PHBs.
Plus, they have lists of impressive features.
They still suck though.