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Technology is not enough to help the security industry keep botnets from stealing peoples' money and committing denial-of-service attacks, a top botnet researcher said on Wednesday. His suggestion? Stop the flow of money to their coffers."We need to disrupt their business model and make it hard for them to carry out their attacks and make money," Joe Stewart, a security researcher at SecureWorks, said in an interview at the RSA 2009 security conference here.
"Right now, it's risky to surf the Internet with a PC," he said. "I would like to see us return to a time when you could surf the Internet and trust that your computer wasn't going to get infected."
