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		<title><![CDATA[Measurement and Classification of Humans and Bots in Internet Chat]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1021837]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FTC shuts down notorious botnet ISP]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3507]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 13:58:40 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Net of the Living Dead: Bots, Botnets and Zombies]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1014083]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Towards Complete Node Enumeration in a Peer-to-Peer Botnet]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1174663]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[YCC Yahoo Bot Maker 2.2.0 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=922065]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[As the Net Churns: Fast-Flux Botnet Observations]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1021139]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Magic Traffic Bot 1.1 (Windows)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=766497]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Defeating IRC Bots on the Internal Network]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1174191]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Google Hacks: Google Over IM]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://whitepapers.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=321135]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The DefBot 1.0.0 (Mac)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=468975]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[BotSpotting 1.01 (Mac)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=449455]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Undeciphered Bot 1.1 (Mac)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://downloads.zdnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=434905]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2003 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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