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Re: fyi: Storm Worm botnet numbers, via Microsoft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (' =JeffH ')
Tue Oct 23 20:38:39 2007
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com, Brandon Enright <bmenrigh@ucsd.edu>
In-reply-to: Brandon Enright <bmenrigh@ucsd.edu> 's message of
Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:22:12 -0000
Reply-to: ' =JeffH ' <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>
From: ' =JeffH ' <Jeff.Hodges@KingsMountain.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:55:39 -0700
bmenrigh@ucsd.edu said:
> Detailed analysis of the Storm network, how it works, its size, etc is being
> activly worked on by several research groups
8^)
> Storm is nowhere near 50 million nodes and never was.
Good.
> I will be presenting /some/ of this work at Toorcon in San Diego this
> Saturday:
> http://www.toorcon.org/2007/event.php?id=38
excellent, how'd it go? Anyone else present on Storm?
> The presentation is not academic paper quality and takes more of a
> code-monkey approach to the network. Real (sane and substantiated) numbers,
> stats, and graphs will be presented. To the best of my knowledge, it will be
> the first publicly released estimates of the size of the network with actual
> supporting data and evidence.
are your slides now available?
=JeffH
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