takedown

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 […]