Really good article on botnets
This is a great, and long, story about a student at Auburn University who clicked on a link in an email. Of course, clicking on a link in an email isn’t always a bad thing, unless the web server you’re visiting installs maclicious code on your PC!
Even if you’re not interested in botnets or computer security, this is a good read. It’s very informative and offers a glance into the lives of these “bot masters”.
Think you’re safe because your internal network is NAT’d behind a coporate proxy? Think your safe because you’re firewall rules are tight? Think you’re safe because you patch every computer on your network the first Tuesday of every month?
Think again.