Coming Up With Better Ways to Count — and Counter — Botnets

As botnets continue as a major purveyor of malicious activity, finding new and improved ways to measure their influence will be key to preventing future attacks. But gaining an accurate read on active populations continues to prove difficult. In recent years more research has been devoted to...

Methods For Measuring Botnet Threat Woefully Inadequate

Current methods for measuring the size of botnets are flawed and may be hampering efforts to fight back against the networks of zombie computers, according to a new report from The European Network and Information Security Agency ENISA. The agency issued a 150 page report, “Botnets: Measurement,...