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Oct 23 2009 4:42PM GMT
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
botnet, micro-botnet, phishing, Security, social engineering
Overheard – Baby botnet
Posted by: Margaret Rouse
botnet, micro-botnet, phishing, Security, social engineering
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I suspect that a sizable percentage of small botnets are those developed by people who understand or are operating inside a business as employees who want to gain remote access to corporate systems, or by criminal entities that have dug deep and gotten insider information on the environment…We’ve seen a growth in the number of sites that offer the sale of corporate documents that were extracted from the bots.
Gunter Ollmann, as quoted in Up To 9 Percent Of Machines In An Enterprise Are Bot-Infected |
Today’s WhatIs.com Word of the Day is micro-botnet, also known as baby botnet.
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