Botnet Takedown May Yield Valuable Data

Researchers believe they can mine valuable information from the loads of data retrieved after taking down the 5th largest bot-net in the world. Wouldn’t cash rewards for the people behind the botnets get better results? Just sayin'.

Researchers are hoping to get a better insight on botnets after taking down part of Pushdo, one of the top five networks of hacked computers responsible for most of the world's spam. Thorsten Holz, an assistant professor of computer science at Ruhr-University in Bochum, Germany, said his group is working on an academic paper focused on methods to figure out what type of malicious spamming software is on a computer that sent a particular spam e-mail.

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