Botnets - The Most Dangerous Threat from the Internet
Hackwerk
English - March 18, 2022 12:56 - 46 minutes - 37.5 MBTechnology News Tech News cybersecurity infosecurity hacking cybersec infosec cyberwar ransomware malware worm darknet Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Botnets are on of the biggest threats from the internet. We are talking with cybersecurity expert Philippe Humeau about botnets, cover their capabilities and how botnets are controlled.
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About our guest:
Philippe Humeau graduated in 1999 as IT security engineer from EPITA (Paris, France). He founded his first company at the same time and quickly oriented it towards penetration testing and high-security hosting. He was also deeply involved in Magento’s community creation & animation in France and versed in eCommerce (wrote 4 books on the topic). In 2020, he founded CrowdSec, a company editing an eponymous open-source and collaborative IPS, leveraging both IP behavior & reputation to create a community and tackle the mass scale hacking problem. His crushes will forever be IT security, DevSecOps, and entrepreneurship.
Shownotes:
Mirai botnet authors avoid jail time: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/09/mirai-botnet-authors-avoid-jail-time/
CrowdSec website: https://crowdsec.net/
CrowdSec GitHub: https://github.com/crowdsecurity/crowdsec
CrowdSec explained in 15 minutes by Philippe ➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NgZBldnos
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