Internet Evil: Bot Masters don't like you? You're gone.
From Wired: Attack of the Bots
Bot Masters are starting to throw their weight around. And they're winning. Wired has a horrific story of one company being targeted as a personal vendetta, and being put out of business.
SIX APART HAD FALLEN PREY to a botnet – a network made up of independent programs, or bots, acting in concert. Over the years, corporate IT managers have learned to firewall their networks to block unauthorized intrusion and patch their system software to keep out viruses, worms, and Trojan horses. Likewise, PC owners have installed tens of millions of personal firewalls and antivirus programs. But bots are infiltrating even protected computers, and they have quickly become a bigger threat than virulent malware like the famously destructive Melissa, I Love You, and Slammer.
"After learning about bots, you might think, 'I feel hopelessly outgunned and outmatched,'" says Peter Tippett, CTO of security consultancy Cybertrust. "You are."
Jeff Barson
in Unwarranted Rants, Internet Companies, Disruptive Technology, Tales Of Woe
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