Story: Encrypted bots could be the next threat
Posted by: Anonymous (Tuesday 15 November 2005, 6:29 PM)
Is this a joke? Please tell me this article is an early/late April Fool's joke. I mean really - let's be somewhat grounded here. Worms that act in a "retarded" but mass effort haven't _commonly_ used encryption for the past 5 years or so (some of the unix ones, back when there were unix worms, did). However, most of the manual and even auto-rooter compromises I've been looking at for the past few years are doing this - whether it's encryption or "binary" protocols the backdoor runs over, the effect is the same (the dooms-day effect of IDS evasion. Wow. That's a new and exciting subject.[1]) This is a great example of conference schedulers *desperate* for speakers and "journalists" desperate for content.
[1] - http://www.google.com/search?q=ids%20evasion
Results 1 - 100 of about 137,000 for ids evasion.
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