Crackin' the Kraken bot

Two researchers from Tipping Point's Digital Vaccine Labs successfully infiltrated one of the world's largest botnets -- known as Kraken -- by reverse engineering the encryption routines and figuring out the communication structure between the botnet owner and the hijacked computers. Cody Pierce, our newsmaker of the week, was one of those researchers. (9:28)

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