Pre-empting a botet’s next move could help reveal cyber-criminal’s identity (Image: Holly Harris/Stone/Getty)
A TELESCOPE that can peer into the depths of the net to spot the gathering threat of a botnet could help combat cyber-attacks.
Botnets – networks of compromised computers that are controlled by someone with malicious intent – are an increasingly common feature of the internet. They can be used to flood a target website with useless data to bring it down, launch spam, or spy on computer users by looking for their banking logins and passwords.
To combat this threat, Endgame Systems of Atlanta, Georgia, has come up…
