Dawn of the Botnets

Overwhelming numbers are scary—even in the best of circumstances.
You can plan for them, build up your defenses, and do everything
imaginable to prepare. But when that horde of zombies hits, their
sheer numbers can still cause devastation. 

Botnets are digital zombie hordes. Jamie Tomasello recounts the
scale of the Bredolab botnet—and the many malicious kinds of
missions it carried out. Martijn Grooten explains how botnets
work, and why they can be so difficult to permanently dismantle.
And Darren Mott shares some of the successes the FBI had in
rounding up some of the world’s most prolific bot herders.


If you want to read up on some of our research on botnets, you
can check out all our bonus material over at
redhat.com/commandlineheroes. Follow along with the episode
transcript.