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Monday, July 20, 2009

Can botnets be beaten?

This week, Georgia Tech unveiled BotSniffer, a prototype system designed to detect and disable botnets. Using traffic analysis the BotSniffer tries to identify botnet members by looking for command and control channels.Apparently the BotSniffer detector has been built as an independent plug-in for the popular open source intrusion detection system Snort. With a host system that’s as widely used as Snort, there could be a good possibility of such a system eventually making it in to the real-world.

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