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I've been collecting data about IPs that have been attempting to spam my mail server for the past few months, and today I decided to tak...

I just came across an April 2009 BBC story which shows that USAF Col. Williamson is still promoting his idea of building a U.S. military bot...

Yesterday's New York Times has an interesting article about how security researchers at the University of Toronto have helped uncover o...

There's FUD spreading about Sec. 14 of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 , maintaining that it amounts to an effective repeal of the 4th Ame...

I'm quoted in Peter Buxbaum's "Battling Botnets" article in the August 20, 2008 Military Information Technology . It didn...

An article by Col. Charles W. Williamson III titled "Carpet bombing in cyberspace: Why America needs a military botnet" has been ...

This morning Canada arrested 17 people of ages ranging from 17 to 26 years old for running botnets containing "up to one million comput...

An article in The Progressive by Matthew Rothschild worries that the FBI's InfraGard program is deputizing businesses, training them f...

Alan Ralsky, at one time believed to be the top spammer in the world, has finally been indicted today by a federal grand jury. His home was...

From metafilter : When Ron Paul email spam started hitting inboxes in late October, UAB Computer Forensics Director Gary Warner published...

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on the FBI's "Operation Bot Roast," which busted several criminal users of botnets : ...

My two-part appearance on "The Security Catalyst" podcast last year has resulted in some media coverage of botnets this week at I...

Bob Hagen has put up a post on the evolution of botnets at the Global Crossing blog . (BTW, I'm hoping to have future opportunity to use...

Gadi Evron has now suggested , following Paul Vixie , that it's a waste of time to fight botnets by shutting down botnet controllers. H...

While thinking about Jonathan Adler's presentation at the Skeptics Society conference , it occurred to me that the problem of botnets i...

This post is an index to posts at The Lippard Blog on the subject of information security. This is probably not a complete list; I've t...

Part II of my interview on Michael Santarcangelo's Security Catalyst podcast is now available . (Part I is here .)

I did an interview over the weekend with Michael Santarcangelo of the Security Catalyst about botnets. Part I of that interview is availabl...

I'm giving another talk tomorrow on botnets, this time for the Phoenix chapter of Infragard , the FBI-sponsored 501(c)(3) that is devote...

My presentation on "Defending Against Botnets" for ASU's Computer Security Week is online in streaming video and MP3 audio ...