Comments on: Cyberthreat experts to meet at secretive conference

At a hush-hush security confab on Microsoft's campus this week, there'll be tough talk on beating botnets and keeping cybercrooks at bay.

[Michael00360]

Education

I think that Education is key. While these companies may be competitors, I think that it is a good idea to come together towards a common cause. I would also like to see more educating the public about the risk and threats that are out there.

[MD525]

Re:Education

I completely agree about education. I work for an email anti-theft company and human error remains a considerable problem for security. Just look at the security news on sites. Everyday people send out their/others personal data out for grabs. We can protect from lots of security risks but sometimes it is up to users to take a few simple precautions.

Michael
essentialsecurity.com

[Jimmu410]

Follow the money

Stop trying to figure out how to make the system absolute proof against invasion. Go after the people who are buying bot-nets to flood inboxes with their ads.

[Too Old For IT]

Need more action than flooding mailboxes

There needs to be some actual danger to running a botnet or buying time on one.

Perhaps if the black ops kicked down the door of a botnet operator, drug him out into the street and lopped off his arms at the shoulders?

Maybe the same for botnet buyers?

Definately would send a message they could understand without translation!

[dargon19888]

Force Telcos and ISPs to toe the line...

You remove the ability of PCs from bypassing their ISP's mail servers and you remove the bot's ability to SPAM.

By forcing the average PC to push their mail through their ISP's servers, the ISPs then can control or throttle the amount of mail comming from an individual PC.

A PC starts a spam run, then the ISP now has an incentive to block their e-mail during the run and then contacting their customer and letting them know that their PC is infected.

Or what they could do is to trace the packets to and from the PC and figure out who's controlling the bot net....

Lots of options.