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The wisdom of white hats
| When cops come up with a brilliant plan to catch more criminals, you can bet your last dollar that some criminals have already figured a way around it. Enterprise security is not that very different. Consider this. Recently researchers unearthed what could be the biggest botnet ever. The core software, called Kraken, is believed to have infected 400,000 machines already and this number is set to rise to 600,000 in the next two weeks. With a code that morphs, Kraken has managed to evade conventional security systems - such as IDSs, IPSs and firewalls - and infected machines in nearly 50 of Fortune 500 companies. What's scarier is that, according to initial estimates, only around 20% of anti-virus programs have been able to detect it. |
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