Autonomous bot nets
Most certainly you have heard about bot networks that consist of thousands of PCs, infected by malware, that can be used for distributed attacks to bring down a server or to send out spam. All bots connect to a central server and listen for commands. That central server can be found and shut down in order to eliminate the threat.
Now this has changed. Published by the Internet Storm Center a new generation of bots is using peer to peer networking technology instead of relying on the vulnerable central server. Now bots can find each-other and pass commands along from bot to bot. Finding a few bots and shutting them down won't turn off the network. Instead it just doesn't matter.
This new development means that endpoint security has to be taken more seriously to reduce the number of infect-able systems.
