CSO: Botnets: "The Democratization of Espionage"

Botnets give the common hacker espionage tools formerly reserved for nation states. Former Washington Post security reporter Brian Krebs talks to Arbor Networks' Roland Dobbins.

By Brian Krebs
January 22, 2010

The cyber attacks against Google, Adobe and a raft of other top U.S. corporations late last year were by most accounts sophisticated and targeted attempts to steal proprietary data. But lost in all of the resulting media hoopla over who the remaining victims were and whether Chinese hackers or indeed the Chinese government itself were responsible is the simple, terrifying truth that individual hackers now have access to the same arsenal of cyber weapons once reserved only for nation states.

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