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Re: Hand-Waving, Smoke, and Mirrors? Botnet numbers...
From: Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 04:06:23 -0500 (CDT)
On Wed, 4 Oct 2006, Fergie wrote:
These particular numbers have been brought to my attention: [snip] Symantec, in its report, said it detected 157,477 unique phishing messages in the first half of 2006, a stunning 81 percent increase from a year earlier. Symantec found 4.7 million computers worldwide had become part of botnets during the first half of 2006, divvied up among 6,337 separate operators. On any given day, an average of 57,717 botnet computers were active, launching an average of 6,100 denial service attacks.
They share their view, which is very cool. They are still way off, as every year. Gadi.
[snip] Link: http://www.legitreviews.com/news/2716/ This active botnet zombie number (57k average?) look terribly low to me, and the 6,100 DoS figure looks to be made up out of whole cloth. I'm not sure I had a question to pose, but perhaps soliciting comments... - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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