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- (1) roBOT A program used on the Internet that performs a repetitive function such as posting a message to multiple newsgroups or searching for information or news. Bots...
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- Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat
- The abuse of chat services by automated programs, known as chat bots, poses a serious threat to Internet users. Chat bots target popular chat networks to distribute spam and malware. This paper, first conducts a series of measurements on a large commercial chat network. It measurements capture a total of...
- White papers 2009-06-27
- FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP
- The Federal Trade Commission FTC has shut down a U.S.-based Internet Service Provider for recruiting, hosting and actively participating in the distribution of spam, child pornography, and other harmful electronic content. Pricewert LLC (also known as 3FN and APS Telecom) was shut down by a district court...
- Blog posts 2009-06-04
- Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies
- Organized crime long ago discovered the Internet's profit potential, and has succeeded not only in recruiting the necessary expertise to exploit that potential, but in capturing and subverting a significant quantity of innocent Internet-attached systems and, in the process, acquiring the owners of those systems as unwitting Although they are...
- White papers 2009-04-16
- Towards Complete Node Enumeration in a Peer-to-Peer Botnet
- Modern advanced botnets may employ a decentralized peer-to-peer overlay network to bootstrap and maintain their command and control channels, making them more resilient to traditional mitigation efforts such as server incapacitation. As an alternative strategy, the malware defense community has been trying to identify the bot-infected hosts and enumerate the...
- White papers 2009-03-12
- YCC Yahoo Bot Maker 2.2.0 (Windows)
- YCC Yahoo Bot Maker is a program designed to quickly and efficiently create Yahoo accounts. The accounts created by YCC Yahoo Bot Maker can be used for any of the Yahoo services such as Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Instant Messenger YM. YCC Yahoo Bot Maker mimics a Web browser by...
- Software downloads 2009-02-11
- As the Net Churns: Fast-Flux Botnet Observations
- While botnets themselves provide a rich platform for financial gain for the botnet master, the use of infected hosts as webservers can provide an additional botnet use. Botnet herders often use fast-flux DNS techniques to host unwanted or illegal content within a botnet. These techniques change the mapping of domain...
- White papers 2008-09-05
- Magic Traffic Bot 1.1 (Windows)
- Magic Traffic Bot is able to customize the referrer link to appear to come from any Web site or any Web page you choose. Just imagine all the intrigued Web masters all clicking on your Web site. AutoSearch & ping as many sites as you like, perfectly legally; ping a...
- Software downloads 2007-03-02
- Defeating IRC Bots on the Internal Network
- The rapid growth of botnets represents the greatest computer security threat facing individuals and corporations today. Fuelled by financial incentives and readily available source code, malware authors pursue aggressively the development of newer modules and the exploitation of code into these bots. This paper describes the process of setting up...
- White papers 2007-02-01
- Google Hacks: Google Over IM
- Instant messaging is no longer solely the domain of teenagers with too much spare time on their hands. IM has morphed from a fun toy to a serious productivity tool. Google offers its own IM client called Google Talk. Thanks to the Google Talk and the Google API, one can...
- Book chapters 2006-08-01
- The DefBot 1.0.0 (Mac)
- A advanced robot and client for use with HotLine servers, it replaces the standard client and has full admin features. Allows multiple connections even to different servers, customized messaging, rule enforcment, file transfers, news access, HotLine Icons display, user history, rule breakers listing, tracker searches, messaging commands for remote bot...
- Software downloads 2005-06-06
- BotSpotting 1.01 (Mac)
- A tool to collect and store basic visitor information: date/time stamp of visiting browser, page visited, IP address and UserAgent type of browser or bot name. Options include setting date for data collection, record all browsers or just bots from list, sorting data by IP, date or bot/browser name. Useful...
- Software downloads 2004-07-08
- Undeciphered Bot 1.1 (Mac)
- An AppleScript than can dynamically respond to instant messages in AIM. Has many fun things you can do like rock, paper, scissors, and tic tac toe.
- Software downloads 2003-04-23
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- Dark Internet Fundamentals
- We all think we know the internet - the service that has magically transmitted these words from my keyboard to your eyeballs - but how much do you know of the fundamentals? As I wrote about last year, the plumbing of the internet...
- Blog posts 2009-11-29
- Inside the Google Chrome OS security model
- The proof will be in implementationAll of these lofty goals are one thing. Making it happen in code is quite another. It sounds like they are just giving a laundry list of what people want them to say. I'm in the "believe it when I see it" camp. Good intentions...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-19
- What's next for Microsoft's Azure cloud platform?
- So MS is going cloud...Well, well, isn't this interesting. Does MS concede that the era of packaged client software is over? Again, MS is the follower and not the leader, and again, MS is following Google to the clouds. My prediction is that this will be a field day...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-18
- Three new codenames and how they fit into Microsoft's cloud vision
- They are named V / W / TThey came up with some good names:VirusWormTrojan;)Wow! Did you figure that out all by yourself? You get a gold star! [nt].Windows 'BOT CLOUD' now that is NEW!Instead of the MILLIONS of compromised Windows servers/desktop world wide and growing.The Windows cloud will pollute the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-17
- GOOG could lose more than Murdoch
- Thanks, this was insightfulWhat if Murdoch and minions stroke a deal with a more desperate Google competitor - and blocked Google. That would be a very real threat. If users suddenly finds that Google returns fewer quality results than competitors, Google could lose search share, fast. That would strike directly...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-16
- Your top Windows 7 questions, answered
- If we wanted tech stats on Linux we know the URLNever ceases to amaze me that people search for ways to say a whole lot of absolutely nothing relevant. Must be because they don't have an answer so they change topics. Typical!You beat me to it Ed!!!nt64-bit environment...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Windows 7 puts Vista into perspective: Only a 'failure' in retrospect
- The fault lies with MS and Driver manufacturersWe don't criticize macs because they are a package deal, with a price premium to match so they generally work just fine. We don't call for witch hunts of Linux distro's because we expect to have problems and tweaks with Linux, plus it's...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Google Wave: The Microsoft Bob of the New Millennium
- Google Wave, the new and highly anticipated workflow/group collaboration mashup web application which is in limited alpha test has left me underwhelmed. Over the weekend I became one of the lucky few to receive a Google Wave invite. I was excited, overjoyed, and...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
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