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The World's Biggest Botnets
ancientribe writes "There's a new peer-to-peer based botnet emerging that could blow the notorious Storm away in size and sophistication, according to researchers, and it's a direct result of how Storm has changed the botnet game, with more powerful and wily botnets on the horizon. This article provides a peek at the 'new Storm' and reveals the three biggest botnets in the world (including Storm) — and what makes them tick and what they are after."
Or if everyone donated their CPU time to botnets!
My UID is prime... is yours?
This article provides a peek at the 'new Storm' and reveals the three biggest botnets in the world (including Storm) -- and what makes them tick and what they are after.
From the look of things, it appears that their sole purpose is to send me myspace friend requests from lonely, hot girls that have Tom as their only friend, and have selected me as the lucky person who gets to share in viewing their private, personal website, which has many photos of their naked breasts and vagina. Seriously.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
In Soviet Russia botnets donate cpu time to you.
Well thankfully I run Windows, which is inherently more secure than your "open source" systems. These botnet creators can look right inside your operating systems and see the vulnerabilities, whereas with Windows...
I installed Storm on my computer and I've never been happier. Downloads are quicker, my mortgage has been refinanced, I made a fortune in the stock market, and my cock is 2 inches longer.
excellent botnet-er, would bot again++++!++!
So the world's largest networked super computer runs Windows. It is sad really, all these hundreds of millions of computers on the planet - half of them sending spam for the other half to filter out. One would think that there should be something slightly more useful for them to do.
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
I'd feel a lot safer if you could get selinux to work on Windows...
Excuse me, but please get off my Pennisetum Clandestinum, eh!
Just ask my wife.
Or better yet, if each node ran a small neural net. with each node connected to many other nodes, the whole system might gain consciousness!
Right, because every AI researcher knows "strong AI" is as simple as creating a huge neural network and letting the magic happen ;-)
You just got troll'd!
It seems to work just about as well as anything else they've tried.
I read the internet for the articles.
> Netgear was very helpful. Tier1 tech support said securing the router was my
> responsibility.
Easily done. Place the router in a trashcan and secure the lid. Then scrounge up an old pc or laptop and put a Linux router on it.
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
I'd feel a lot better if I could get SELinux to work on Linux..
Is there really more than about 3 people in the world that actually have a working SELinux system? That they use on a day-to-day basis?
That's what I thought the name of the article was, I was like, cool! Then I was let down :-(.
I've read Slashdot for the last 5 years, and now I start posting... Go figure
It's a well-known fact that SELinux was developed to confound hackers. It is a less-known fact that the trick is to try to get them to install it.
I see your informative link, and raise you a pithy comment.
Imagine if somebody did this but instead of donating time to distributed computing projects like that one on cancer research, the distributed computing project was to have the bot spread like a cancer, refuse to be treated like a cancer, and generally plague and cripple the world with problems like a cancer. Oh wait.
A duck vaccine? First we need to figure out if it'll float or weigh more than a witch.
You see this is exactly why Windows is winning. Linux is still yet to provide a credible botnet to face off against the Windows botnet. There's just no comparison, Windows wins every time!
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I am waiting for someone to hire storm to attack echelon.
I made that suggestion, but for some odd reason shooting morons launching executables named "invoice.pdf.exe" is considered illegal in my country.
Yeah, we got silly laws here.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I read that as NASA...
Strangely it still made sense.
Botnets and I cannot lie... :)
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
aye.. the people who construct these botnets know how to make the internet work better than most of its engineers.
Kill your TV