Botnet expert suggests hitting cybercriminals in pocket book

Technology is not enough to help the security industry keep botnets from stealing peoples’ money and committing denial-of-service attacks, a top botnet researcher said on Wednesday. His suggestion? Stop the flow of money to their coffers.”We need to disrupt their business model and make it hard for them to carry out their attacks and make money,” Joe Stewart, a security researcher at SecureWorks, said in an interview at the RSA 2009 security conference here.
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