??? In February 2007, Forrester.com reported in a teleconference that the firms they
had surveyed were planning on spending between 7.5 percent and 9.0 percent
of their IT budgets on security. These figures were fairly consistent among
different organizations, regardless of their industry, size, and geographic
location. In May 2007 they reported that more than half of the IT directors they
had surveyed were planning on increasing their security budgets.
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As stated earlier, an interesting shift has taken place in the hacker community??”from
joyriding to hacking as an occupation. Today close to a million computers are infected
with bots that are controlled by specific hackers. If a hacker has infected 4,000 systems,
she can use her botnetwork to carry out DoS attacks or lease these systems to others.
Botnets are used to spread more spam, phishing attacks, and pornography. Hackers who
own and run botnets are referred to as bot herders, and they lease out systems to others
who do notwant their activities linked to their true identities or systems. Since more network
administrators have properly configured their mail relays, and blacklists are used
to block mail relays that are open, spammers have had to move to different methods
(using botnets), which the hacking community has been more than willing to provide??”
for a price.
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