Re: [funsec] Fight! Fight!
Hmmm it would appear that our good friends at McAfee have forgotten the definition of botnet... let me help them out a bit :-) bot·net noun /ˈbätˌnet/ botnets, plural 1. A network of private computers infected with malicious software and controlled as a group without the owners' knowledge Michael P. Blanchard Senior Security Engineer, CISSP, GCIH, CCSA-NGX, MCSE Office of Information Security Risk Management EMC ² Corporation 32 Coslin Drive Southboro, MA 01772 -Original Message- From: funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-boun...@linuxbox.org] On Behalf Of valdis.kletni...@vt.edu Sent: Friday, August 19, 2011 3:45 PM To: rmsl...@shaw.ca Cc: funsec@linuxbox.org Subject: Re: [funsec] Fight! Fight! On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:20:39 PDT, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah said: http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/shady-rat-is-not-a-botnet Well.. she says: Speaking of technical arguments, apparently Mr. Kaspersky has gotten it in his head that Shady RAT is a botnet. And then continues with: that we only know of 72 companies/organizations victimized through one command control server, out of hundreds or more used by this adversary. OK, I'll bite, if it was a CC server, *what do we call the thing being controlled* if it wasn't a botnet? ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
[funsec] Fight! Fight!
http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/shady-rat-is-not-a-botnet == (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rsl...@vcn.bc.ca sl...@victoria.tc.ca rsl...@computercrime.org More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency than for any other single reason--including blind stupidity. - William A. Wulf victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ http://twitter.com/rslade ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
Re: [funsec] Fight! Fight!
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:20:39 PDT, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah said: http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/shady-rat-is-not-a-botnet Well.. she says: Speaking of technical arguments, apparently Mr. Kaspersky has gotten it in his head that Shady RAT is a botnet. And then continues with: that we only know of 72 companies/organizations victimized through one command control server, out of hundreds or more used by this adversary. OK, I'll bite, if it was a CC server, *what do we call the thing being controlled* if it wasn't a botnet? pgpnOvxNlTrhw.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
