fyi: Storm Worm botnet numbers, via Microsoft

' =JeffH ' Jeff.Hodges at KingsMountain.com
Mon Oct 22 20:55:39 EDT 2007



bmenrigh at ucsd.edu said:
> Detailed analysis of the Storm network, how it works, its size, etc is being
> activly worked on by several research groups

8^)


>   Storm is nowhere near 50 million nodes and never was.


Good.  


> I will be presenting /some/ of this work at Toorcon in San Diego this
> Saturday:

> http://www.toorcon.org/2007/event.php?id=38


excellent, how'd it go? Anyone else present on Storm?



> The presentation is not academic paper quality and takes more of a
> code-monkey approach to the network.  Real (sane and substantiated) numbers,
> stats, and graphs will be presented.  To the best of my knowledge, it will be
> the first publicly released estimates of the size of the network with actual
> supporting data and evidence. 


are your slides now available?



=JeffH


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