[LINK] Detailed article on botnets

[Kim Holburn]

Here is a detailed article on wired about Botnets (and Blue Security)  
and why we need IDS and how the bad guys have won control of the  
internet for now:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/botnet.html

A sad story.

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