Richard Perlotto – Network Securitas

March 16, 2020

The Web’s Bot Containment Unit Needs Your Help

This post was originally published on this siteAnyone who’s seen the 1984 hit movie Ghostbusters likely recalls the pivotal scene where a government bureaucrat orders the shutdown of the ghost containment unit, effectively unleashing a pent-up phantom menace on New York City. Now, something similar is in danger of happening in cyberspace: Shadowserver.org, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization that works to help Internet service providers (ISPs) identify and quarantine malware infections and botnets, has lost its longtime primary source of funding. Image: Ghostbusters. Shadowserver provides free daily live feeds of information about systems that are either infected with bot malware or […]