botnet

February 27, 2015

Response to “How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet” (Part 2)

In the first part of this two part blog post, the issue of anticipating retaliation during an aggressive battle to wrest control of a DDoS botnet […]
February 17, 2015

Response to “How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of the Internet” (Part 1)

This blog post is the first of a two-part series in response to the Wired article of Oct 14, 2014, “How Microsoft Appointed Itself Sheriff of […]
June 9, 2013

Unveiling Dorothy2: a malware/botnet analysis framework written in Ruby.

Howdy all,I’ve the pleasure to *finally* unveil the second version of Dorothy: a malware/botnet analysis framework written in Ruby. Dorothy2 is a framework created for mass […]
March 11, 2013

A new infosec era? Or a new infosec error?

On March 4, 2013, a contest was held at the Nullcon conference in Goa, India, to see who could take over a botnet. The Times of […]
March 31, 2012

Kelihos.B/Hlux.B botnet takedown

On Wednesday, March 21, 2012, an operation by security experts from Dell SecureWorks, CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, and the Honeynet Project was initiated to sinkhole infected computers in […]
March 28, 2012

Thoughts on the Microsoft’s “Operation b71” (Zeus botnet civil legal action)

On Sunday, March 25, Microsoft announced that for the fourth time, they had gone to a federal court and successfully obtained an ex parte temporary restraining […]