Latest Malware Analysis Video Shows Bots from the Wild
3 October, 2007
Great news! LiveSecurity subscribers can download new training videos every Wednesday in October, free of charge, as part of WatchGuard’s participation in National Cyber-Security Awareness Month.
To kick off this innovative passel of edutainment, the LiveSecurity analysts and writers conclude the popular Malware Analysis video series. The Malware Analysis premise is simple: you can hear about hacker attacks, read about hacker attacks, and understand the concepts behind them, but nothing ignites your understanding like seeing the attack right before your eyes. When you understand the threat, understanding the defense is much easier.
Previous Malware Analysis videos have shown the real-world malicious code and techniques behind drive-by downloads and rootkits. Now, joining the four videos that have drawn so many hundreds of emails from enthused viewers, we present a full course on (drumroll please)… botnets.
In “Malware Analysis: Botnets (Part 1),” Network Security Analyst Corey Nachreiner and his Magic White Board cover topics both beginning and advanced:
- What a “botnet” is
- How an attacker builds a bot client
- How an attacker controls and commands remote bots
- How crooks recruit an army of bots and become bot herders
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Written by bardissi on October 3rd, 2007 with no comments.
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