3 October, 2007
Great news! LiveSecurity subscrtibers can download new training videos every Wednesday in October, free of charge, as part of WatchGuard’s participation in National Cyber-Security Awareness Month.
To kick off this innovative passel of edutainment, the LiveSecurity analysts and writers conclude the popular Malware Analysis video series. The Malware Analysis premise is simple: you can hear about hacker attacks, read about hacker attacks, and understand the concepts behind them, but nothing ignites your understanding like seeing the attack right before your eyes. When you understand the threat, understanding the defense is much easier.
Previous Malware Analysis videos have shown the real-world malicious code and techniques behind drive-by downloads and rootkits. Now, joining the four videos that have drawn so many hundreds of emails from enthused viewers, we present a full course on (drumroll please)… botnets.
In “Malware Analysis: Botnets (Part 1),” Network Security Analyst Corey Nachreiner and his Magic White Board cover topics both beginning and advanced:
- What a “botnet” is
- How an attacker builds a bot client
- How an attacker controls and commands remote bots
- How crooks recruit an army of bots and become bot herders
3 October, 2007
Great news! LiveSecurity subscrtibers can download new training videos every Wednesday in October, free of charge, as part of WatchGuard’s participation in National Cyber-Security Awareness Month.
To kick off this innovative passel of edutainment, the LiveSecurity analysts and writers conclude the popular Malware Analysis video series. The Malware Analysis premise is simple: you can hear about hacker attacks, read about hacker attacks, and understand the concepts behind them, but nothing ignites your understanding like seeing the attack right before your eyes. When you understand the threat, understanding the defense is much easier.
Previous Malware Analysis videos have shown the real-world malicious code and techniques behind drive-by downloads and rootkits. Now, joining the four videos that have drawn so many hundreds of emails from enthused viewers, we present a full course on (drumroll please)… botnets.
In “Malware Analysis: Botnets (Part 1),” Network Security Analyst Corey Nachreiner and his Magic White Board cover topics both beginning and advanced:
- What a “botnet” is
- How an attacker builds a bot client
- How an attacker controls and commands remote bots
- How crooks recruit an army of bots and become bot herders
…all covered in a brisk sixteen minutes.
For IT professionals who crave extra depth, we’ve also provided a video supplement to the Botnets Part 1 video. In “Bot Source Code for Overachievers,” Nachreiner provides a line-by-line tour of malicious bot code, so you can understand its modular nature.
How to get the video
Ready to understand botnets like never before? As a LiveSecurity Service subscriber, you can download the video starting today, in your choice of formats, from our fancy-shmancy Video Tutorials page. Once you have your own copy of the video, the terms of your subscription permit you to show it within your organization as much as you want. Enjoy!
Hooked on bots? In Part 2 of the Malware Analysis: Botnets series, you’ll see what attacks botnets can pull off. Watch for it on Wednesday, October 10. Then, one week later on October 17, Part 3 will tell you how to defend against the bot threat. And that’s just the beginning of the video bonanaza we’ve cooked up for National Cyber-Security Awareness Month! Watch your Inbox for further announcements of superb training materials provided to you free as a loyal LiveSecurity subscriber.
We’re working hard to provide innovative, relevant security training for you. Besides keeping the videos coming, we’ve just posted our latest episode of Radio Free Security. So thanks for your enthusiastic support of our media initiatives. Keep sending your comments and suggestions on how we can best help you, and what topics you’d like us to cover, to your.opinion.matters@watchguard.com. ##