The dust has settled from RSA 2007, and it was standing room only as Wayne Porter and I explored the methods of shutting down Botnets by dealing with details outside of the Botnet itself - in other words, tackling the human angle as opposed server details to have a bigger impact on the bad guys.
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I believe the total audience was around four hundred people - thanks to all that came along, and also many thanks to the FaceTime research team who do an awful lot of work behind the scenes.
We provided a brief overview of the current Botnet hunting landscape, some top tips for getting stuff shut down when it’s located in some far flung corner overseas and (most importantly), two case studies that illustrate the ways in which we use social media and storytelling to further the reach of our security tales, and spread the word on […]
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