ISPs start to clear up consumer botnets themselves

Here is some good news - the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has published guidelines and best practices for mitigating large-scale botnet infections on residential Internet networks. The timing of this publication couldn’t be better - just after Twitter and a number of other social networking sites were effectively downed for several hours by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on one individual blogger. Regardless of the motives behind this DDoS attack last week, t... [More]