A NetWitness white paper entitled The "Kneber" BotNet: A ZeuS Discovery and Analysis provides a thorough examination of the botnet that the security firm recently uncovered, and looks at the implications of the discovery.

"Social Networking, Online Banking, Corporate Security, National Security, Intellectual Property Theft, and nearly every other information security concern are inextricably linked by the data being siphoned off to criminal and sponsored adversaries," the white paper states. "In an environment where compromised systems are key to broad data theft, security professionals can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to problems by categorizing them broadly as affecting other markets."

Click here to access the NetWitness white paper.