{"id":71777,"date":"2017-08-08T07:42:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/here-are-some-new-ideas-for-fighting-botnets"},"modified":"2017-08-08T07:42:23","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T14:42:23","slug":"here-are-some-new-ideas-for-fighting-botnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/here-are-some-new-ideas-for-fighting-botnets","title":{"rendered":"Here Are Some New Ideas for Fighting Botnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/here-are-some-new-ideas-for-fighting-botnets.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tricky problem, so solutions have to be carefully thought out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Federal agencies face a thorny path as <\/strong>they try to step up the government\u2019s fight against armies of infected computers and connected devices known as botnets, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntia.doc.gov\/federal-register-notice\/2017\/comments-promoting-stakeholder-action-against-botnets-and-other\">responses<\/a> to a government information request reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Industry, academic and think tank commenters all agreed more should be done to combat the zombie computer armies that digital ne\u2019er-do-wells frequently hire to force adversaries offline.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2017\/08\/here-are-some-new-ideas-fighting-botnets\/140066\/?oref=DefenseOneFB&utm_content=buffer06d95&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">http:\/\/www.defenseone.com\/threats\/2017\/08\/here-are-some-new-...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s a tricky problem, so solutions have to be carefully thought out. Federal agencies face a thorny path as they try to step up the government\u2019s fight against armies of infected computers and connected devices known as botnets, responses to a government information request reveal. Industry, academic and think tank commenters all agreed more should [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":440,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/440"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}