The European Network and Information Security Agency has released a study on botnets. The study looks at the reliability of botnet size estimates and says the total annual global economic loss attributed to malicious software activities is estimated at more than US$ 10 billion. The report’s authors say existing approaches to measuring the size of botnets are often wildly off-base because there is a high incentive for exaggeration. The number of infected machines alone is an inappropriate measure of the threat, the report’s editor Dr Giles Hogben says.”]
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