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Archive for May, 2006

Nugache: TCP port 8 Bot

May 4, 2006 by Jose Nazario

Over this past weekend, ASERT received samples of the Nugache bot and analyzed them Monday morning. Nugache has been noticed because it appears to employ P2P to communicate rather than a more traditional IRC channel. People have been discussing it as a Waste-based protocol, the same method that people use to share MP3s. The list [...]

Posted in Botnets, Forensics, Reverse Engineering

The Enemy Within

May 2, 2006 by Craig Labovitz

Amidst the daily headlines heralding the rise of massive zombie armies and malevolent teenage hackers in far-off countries, it’s easy to lose sight of one of the biggest threats to your network. And you may be surprised by this oft overlooked enemy to uptime and your SLAs. (Hint: It isn’t the thousands of compromised PCs [...]

Posted in Arbor Networks - DDoS Experts, Critical Infrastructure, Vulnerabilities

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Archive for May, 2006

Nugache: TCP port 8 Bot

The Enemy Within