[Gllug] Coordinated attacks ... how?

[Tethys]

Doug Winter writes:

>It's probably someone with a botnet.  Getting a botnet isn't very
>difficult, and a lot of kiddies manage it without having any real skills
>at all - you can get software off the internet to sort it all out for
>you.  It's not like cracking windows boxes is very difficult.

There was an interesting article on LWN this week. Essentially, the
phatbot worm creates a network of compromised machines. Nothing new
there. What is new, though, is that those machines have a value, and
are being actively traded -- apparently it's around $US0.10 to buy
use of a compromised machine for whatever nefarious purposes you
may wish.

Tet
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