Attack of the Botnets: How to Protect Your Company

[mandy]

In moments, hackers with bot code can break into vulnerable computers, turn them into zombies, steal information and spread the infection. While you scramble to secure your network--and the vital data on it--botmasters sell access to your hacked machines for pennies apiece. Here's the inside story of how bots work--and what you can do to protect your company...

On any given day, 3 million to 3.5 million bots are active around the world, says Alan Paller, director of The SANS Institute, a security researcher in Bethesda, Md.—enough to disable all U.S. online retailers three times over. And each day those bots infect 250,000 Internet Protocol addresses, representing hundreds of thousands of Internet-connected devices, according to CipherTrust, a security consultant...

full article: http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,15...399,00.asp

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[misteroriginal]

No they can't if you close your eyes.