Web Outage Blamed On Zombies
News The attack that blacked out Google, Yahoo and other major Web sites earlier this week involved the use of a "bot net" -- a large network of zombified home PCs -- Internet infrastructure provider Akamai Technologies said Wednesday.
[June 17, 2004, 9:35]
More Info To Go: IM Gets Intelligent
News It will be a "bot" created by New York company ActiveBuddy, which is developing technology that lets popular software for trading short text messages be used to grab information stored on Web sites and computer databases.
[April 26, 2001, 11:59]
IM Bot Will Talk For Cash
News ActiveBuddy is still in negotiations with all of the major IM networks to host the so-called bot on its debut, which is expected mid-February. Code-named SmarterChild, the instantaneous fact-finding technology will be one of the first tests of a...
[January 30, 2003, 12:12]
Zombie Networks Implicated In ID Theft
News The bot net's controller would then collect the items and sell them on auction site eBay, Holz said. A person whose computer is infected with bot software runs the risk of having sensitive information such as account passwords and credit card...
[March 15, 2005, 8:15]
DNS Recursion Leads To Nastier DoS Attacks
News As a result, the DNS server, rather than the bot, makes the direct attack on the victim. While it is possible to stop a bot-delivered DDoS attack by blocking the bots' IP addresses, blocking queries from DNS servers would prove more difficult...
[March 17, 2006, 9:05]
VeriSign Warns Of Organised Gangs Behind Net Crime
Talkback Maybe microsoft should take the lead with a media campaign - even radio/tv, hilighting the plethora of free security updates and software to tackle this problem from the source.home users need educating in awareness.if they have the facilities to...
[November 18, 2004, 13:19]
New Bots A Shopper's Best Friend
News A group of shopping bot companies is trying to replicate that experience online. Instead, their bots accompany you around the Net and suggest alternatives when you're ready to buy. Imagine walking through the mall with a shopping-savvy friend who...
[November 12, 1999, 9:48]
Bluetooth Needs Long PINS For Security
Talkback The attack is easily parallelised, so if he has access to 1,200 PCs (e.g.a bot net, or at a University), it would only be 1 month. This article is damage control spin from the Bluetooth SIG. The solution offered does little to help.
[July 4, 2005, 5:44]
Worm Warfare Rages On
News The worms include "bot" code, or a program that lets the attacker control a compromised system remotely. The recent surge in worms could be part of an underground battle to hijack PCs for use in Net crimes, some security experts say - but others...
[August 18, 2005, 9:00]
Build Your Own Palm Robot
News All while geeks watch the live webcast from the bot. But Nourbakhsh said the bot could also be built with other PDAs, such as a Windows CE device, or even with a scientific calculator. So they've created a do-it-yourself kit and published the...
[October 10, 2000, 14:16]
Splogs: Wreaking Havoc In The Blogosphere
News Someone basically scripted a bot to be able to [create] thousands of [fake] sites. IceRocket.com, co-owned by well-known Net entrepreneur Mark Cuban, also said it would stop indexing Blogger-BlogSpot posts until it could get a splog filter in place.
[October 21, 2005, 16:00]
