Botnets: Anticipating Failure

June 6, 2007 lecture by Rick Wesson for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). Rick talks about how to use tools to understand how one's network is abusing other networks and shows graphs and stats of trends globally and within the United States.

EE 380 | Computer Systems Colloquium:
http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/

Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory:
http://csl.stanford.edu/

Stanford Center for Professional Development:
http://scpd.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanforduniversity/

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• science
• software
• engineering
• programming
• design
• application
• Rick
• Wesson
• botnets
• networks
• security
• tools

[fIXjACK008]

Awesome, yes it was long, and very informative, the guy who posted before me must have ADD.

[maddoxowns]

@TherealDDoS Bots can be used as RATs if you want them to be. Depends on how well written the client is. You CAN control a computer entirely with a bot. Bots are used to steal CC info quite often, too. It's just hardly ever their primary function.

[TherealDDoS]

This guy is kind of getting bots cunfused with RATs you cant control a computer entirely with a bot and bots are extremely rarely used to steal credit card info.

[petze08]

long video...