Publication technical report - Current Threats on the Internet: Perpetrators, Tools, Prosecution and Incident Response
19.01.2012 - From now on the Reporting and Analysis Centre for Information Assurance MELANI will publish technical reports in the area of Information Assurance at irregular intervals. The reports will deepen actual topics related to incidents and ocurrences in the information and communication technologies (ICT) and will address the corresponding set of problems and put them in a major context.
The first publication brings up current threats on the internet - perpetrators, tools, prosecution and incident response. This document is addressed to persons entrusted with the protection of IT infrastructures and electronic information. The first part briefly outlines which threats currently exist, how they can be classified, and what perpetrators are behind them. The second part explains the foundations for establishing a CSIRT/CERT (Computer Security Incident Response Team / Computer Emergency Response Team). The last chapter presents the resources used by law enforcement authorities to crack down on botnets.