SC Magazine: Botnets: The backdoor to the enterprise network

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Tomer Teller, security researcher and evangelist at Check Point Software Technologies
May 21, 2012

Botnets are one of the most significant network security threats facing organizations today. Compromising anywhere from a few thousand to well over a million systems, botnets are used by cyber criminals to take over computers and execute illegal and damaging activities – such as stealing data, gaining access to unauthorized network resources, initiating Denial of Service (DoS) attacks or distributing spam.

Botnets are here to stay. There is no more static malware; botnets in nature are dynamic and can quickly change form based on the cyber criminal's command. With bot toolkits being sold online for the mere price of $500 and their attacks costing businesses millions of dollars – it gives people insight into how big the problem has become.

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