Botnets: The New, Faceless Threat

Identity Theft

Private Data Vulnerable to Armies of Rogue PCs

One hacker armed with one computer isn’t going to make a dent in most financial institutions’ network security perimeters.

But imagine a faceless army of thousands of compromised PCs outside the walls of your institution. They are computer robots programmed to obey the commands of their master, and will do whatever their botmaster tells them to do. Think what damage they could do.