Security Response

Over the last few decades, markets and economies have been revolutionized with the advent of this powerful medium we call the Internet: Access to information and freedom of expression are not limited to any geographical boundaries; the world has shrunk to the size of electrons. I keenly remember the challenges facing the protagonist in Phillip Dick’s science fiction novel, ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?’, while dealing with rogue androids. The Internet, with its decentralization, openness and commercial dependability has become the haven for a new breed of criminals, where botnets rule the dark, creepy labyrinths. Throughout this time, we at Symantec have been at the forefront in fighting this war of information accessibility and reliability.

Right now, botnets are one of the most concerning problems in information security and are considered to be source of all evil like spam, click frauds and denial of service attacks. Bots are software and...