28/03/2008 - 12:00
28/03/2008 - 14:00
Please hold the date of Friday 28th March for our first monthly lunchtime session.
Amended - Our planned speaker for March has had to pull out. We now have Craig Pattison from Concrete Campus, who will talk to us about a variety of international standards - including his work on these standards bodies.
We hope to reschedule the Root kit & Botnet talk for later in the year.
Full details of Craig's talk will follow closer to the date.
Fri, 15/02/2008 - 1:38pm
Title: BBC Radio 4 interview on botnets
Author: Chris VallancE
Source: BBC
Date Published: 14 Feb 08
Excerpt:
Botnets are arguably the pre-eminent source of internet crime, vast networks of hi-jacked "zombie" computers that rival some of the largest supercomputers in their aggregate power. Used to distribute spam, run phishing scams, attack websites, and host illegal content the truly frightening aspect of bot crime is that the footsoldiers used by the criminal gangs are the subverted PC's of ordinary folk like you and me.
Law enforcement agencies and cyber security experts are currently locked in an arms race with the criminals running the bot-networks. In this interview Steve Santorelli of Team Cymru (I like to think of them as a cybersecurity A-team - but a security thinktank might be more apt) talks about how the threat from botnet is evolving, how peer-to-peer botnets, very hard to take-down, are emerging and what we as individual computer users can and should do to stay safe on-line. The good news there is a bit of common sense about what you download, using firewall and anti-virus applications and regularly updating your computer's software can go a long way towards making sure you aren't inadvertently co-opted into a vast criminal network.
For complete article see: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2008/02/botnets_your_computer_in_the_h.sh...