As much as I like going to industry conferences, enjoying their energy and frenzy, and getting together with old friends, sometimes company events like the BalaBit IT Security one I recently attended in Budapest inspire me even more. Getting to meet so many dedicated security experts and a peek into their everyday work really makes you conscious of the fact that we are all doing our best to "fight the good fight." With that in mind, this is our latest contribution to it, and we hope you'll enjoy it. Mirko Zorz Editor in Chief Visit the magazine website at www.insecuremag.com (IN)SECURE Magazine contacts Feedback and contributions: Mirko Zorz, Editor in Chief -
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[email protected] Distribution (IN)SECURE Magazine can be freely distributed in the form of the original, non-modified PDF document. Distribution of modified versions of (IN)SECURE Magazine content is prohibited without the explicit permission from the editor. Copyright (IN)SECURE Magazine 2013. www.insecuremag.com Researches test resilience of P2P Amsterdam, and tech companies Dell botnets SecureWorks and Crowdstrike has decided to test botnets' resilience to new attacks. While acknowledging that estimating a P2P botnet’s size is difficult and that there is currently no systematic way to analyze their resilience against takedown attempts, they have nevertheless managed to apply their methods to real-world P2P botnets and come up with quality information. They used crawling and sensor injection to detect the size of the botnets and discovered Following increased efforts by a number of two things: that some botnets number over a companies and organizations, the takedown million of bots, and that sensor injection offers on botnet C&C servers is now a pretty regular more accurate results.