PCWorld: Protect Your Business from Kneber-Style Botnets
The facts: it’s not new or, relatively speaking, big – yet. But you do need to protect yourself.
“A report from security research firm NetWitness about a malicious botnet dubbed Kneber has been the focus of a fair amount of media attention, but mostly sensationalism that misses the real point.
Yes, the Kneber botnet consists of nearly 75,000 computers. Yes, systems at roughly 2,500 different companies around the world have been infiltrated. Yes, government agencies have had data compromised. Sadly, that is just “a day in the life”. There is nothing spectacular about those figures.”