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botnet(roBOT NETwork) Also called a "zombie army," a botnet is a large number of compromised computers that are used to create and send spam or viruses or flood a network with messages as a denial of service attack. The computer is compromised via a Trojan that often works by opening an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) channel that waits for commands from the person in control of the botnet. There is a thriving botnet business selling lists of compromised computers to hackers and spammers. See denial of service attack, spambot, zombie and spam 2.0. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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com), an enterprise email security company enabling businesses of any size to block all forms of unwanted email, viruses, phishing and botnet attacks through a Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) system, today announced that it has completed a $4 million round of private equity funding from KH Growth Equity Fund. SPA introduces new targeted threat and botnet detection capabilities for CounterStorm-1[TM] appliance customers and integrators of the Company's Active Threat Recognition SDK. The ATLAS Initiative utilizes a globally distributed darknet sensor network to deliver intelligence on host/port scanning activity, zero-day exploits and worm propagation, security events and vulnerability disclosures, and dynamic botnet and phishing infrastructures. |
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