Understanding Botnets: Prevention and Detection Strategies for Networks

Botnets are insidious. They spread like digital weeds and infect thousands to tens of thousands of machines at a time. Their only purpose is to enrich and empower the botnet owners as they infiltrate endpoints on consumer systems, colleges, and enterprises around the world. These botnets are used to send spam, launch denial of service attacks, and Discovering Botnet Infections in Corporate NetworksThese botnets, vast networks of infected systems under the control and command of criminals, are everyone's problem

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