RE: Cambridge Professor Warns of Skype Botnet Threat

["Richard M. Smith" <rms () computerbytesman com>]

Yes, a computer infected by virus is a bad thing.   Botnets are bad things
also.

Richard 

-----Original Message-----
From: funsec-bounces () linuxbox org [mailto:funsec-bounces () linuxbox org] On
Behalf Of Fergie
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 10:19 AM
To: funsec () linuxbox org
Subject: [funsec] Cambridge Professor Warns of Skype Botnet Threat

I see Jon's busy stirring things up. :-)

Via TechWorld.

[snip]

Voice-over-IP apps could be used to cloak networks of zombies, used to
launch denial of service attacks, a Cambridge professor has warned.

Armies of ordinary PCs - "botnets" - that have been infected by a virus and
put under malicious control, could be controlled and orchestrated by
messages hidden in VoIP traffic generated by programs such as Skype, warned
Jon Crowcroft, Marconi professor of communications systems at Cambridge
University.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5232

- ferg


--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet  fergdawg () netzero net or
fergdawg () sbcglobal net  ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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