Rise of the Small Botnet

wiredmikey writes "Botnets controlled by criminal enterprises all over the world continue to multiply at a steep rate, and it is now arguably the smaller, harder-to-trace operations that organizations should be the most worried about. Not only are smaller botnets cheaper and easier to build out and operate, but criminals have already realized that large-scale botnet activity attracts unwanted attention, and not just of law enforcement."

Re:Spread of intrusion?

[ThePromenader]

LOL - logarithm == internal cronjob. Anomaly detection/alerts.

Re:Spread of intrusion?

[MyLongNickName]

I'm posting from ThePromenader's unmonitored servers.

Dude, you need to break out your dictionary

[sean.peters]

The word you're looking for is "algorithm". A "logarithm" is a number that you get by taking the exponent of a number from a certain base. For example the "common" (base 10) logarithm of 1000 is 3. What your machine is doing has nothing to do with this.