Beating a Dead Horse (Moved from: Viruses, DDos's and then what ?)

[RTKsbox35]

Don't know if I am beating a dead horse here but won't there always be room for improvment in the realm of mitigating botnet DDos attacks? The low end attacks yeilded by kids aren't much of a threat to a well implemented security package (IDS,IPS,ETC), but the cost of creating products to detect and mitigate the damage done by the more advanced bots is relativly astounding(given that the vast majority of products are aimed at detecting infections, securing sensitive data, and eliminating virus payloads, while not actually targeting the root problem). I think the UCSB botnet hi-jack is a testamet to the evolving nature of the feild and increased need and community awareness and acceptance of the botnet threat as being an "epidemic". I do not think it would be entirly out of the question if more funding were to be allocated to offensive strikes against the larger c&c servers, or at least to developing the technologies for launching such offensives. Doing research in the feild of statistics, it is really sad to see how much money has to be spent to yeild slighty better results than previous products in comparison to the amount of funding required to acomplish anything worth while. It is even more saddening to realize that the "opponent" is usually about seventeen" and pissed off about having his "skillz" called into question. I really don't think IT people have anything to worry about, the world will always need consultants, if not in the U.S than in countries where the rate of infection is insane due to piracy, lack of patching, and addiction to Windows. Happy Hollidays

[hexjunkie]

Re: Viruses, DDos's and then what ?

Don't know if I am beating a dead horse here

Considering you necroed a 5 year old thread....

[Thorn]

Re: Viruses, DDos's and then what ?

Don't know if I am beating a dead horse here ...

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Considering you necroed a 5 year old thread....

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