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What a Botnet Looks Like
Esther Schindler writes "CSO has an annotated, zoomable map of real botnet topologies showing the interconnections between the compromised computers and the command-and-control systems that direct them. The map is based on work by security researcher David Voreland; it has interactive controls so you can zoom in and explore botnets' inner workings. Hackers use botnets for spamming, DDoS attacks and identity theft. One recent example is the Storm botnet, which may have comprised 1 million or more zombie systems at its peak. As with any networking challenge, there are good (resilient) designs and some not-so-good ones. In some cases the topology may be indicative of a particular botnet's purpose, or of a herder on the run."
http://www.artsci.washington.edu/news/Autumn05/largermap_sexualnetworks.htm
It would be nice to be able to search my static IP or a range of IPs to see if they are on the map.
Who modded this "offtopic"? The site requires the latest and greatest flash player to look at a freaking image when everyone knows that Flash has big fat holes in it. They might as well made it IE only.
If you zoom in, you'll see a lot of the concentration of spiderwebs are around sites like honeynet.cz.
And they don't particularly mind being ignorant as long as the equipment works right (or appears to). Just as most of us don't feel the need to understand how a car works in order to drive one.
Yes, but people are often more familiar with what a car needs. Regular oil changes, maintenance, gas; they might not know (or care) why the car needs these, but they know that if they don't, the car will fail to work.
People don't even know that much about computers, about what they shouldn't do, even if they don't know why.
after further investigation, it appears the above domain was registered by a company called namecheap also known as HostingAnime a company known for hosting al-Qaeda websites.
Coincidence? I think not!
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
And why's this so much news?
Any self-respecting revolutionary knows that you have a distributed network, so that even if a cell goes down, you can still pass messages.
Hell... I wish IRC could learn from this, I've had enough of netsplits. By rights only the server that goes offline should be affected if it goes down, it shouldn't split the network into 2 massive sections.
Yeah the image looks nice, and is all "ooohhhh ahhhh" and lends itself to "Hey... that's me", but really "News"? I think not
Call me when they have an article as to how they got this information
-1 "Cynical Bastard"
I will not give in to the terrorists. I will not become fearful.