Click Bot Honey Pot

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

In an article from Infoworld, it came to my attention that security firms are opening up honey pots in an attempt to capture bot activity.

Honey pots are machines which are deliberately left unprotected in an attempt to attract the attention of bot herders. The nefarious net users infect the machines, and details of the new bots can be reverse engineered and solutions to the problems devised.

Full details of the story can be read the Infoworld site.Infoworld: Malware Honeypots to Relaunch in ‘08

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