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RSS botBot attacks target those looking for romance
News The artificial intelligence of CyberLover's automated chats is good enough that victims have a tough time distinguishing the 'bot' from a real-life potential suitor, PC Tools said. A program that can mimic online... [10 Dec 2007]
Photos: 'Hero' bot hunts criminals
Photo The modestly named Hero bot uses its spotlights and high resolution cameras to scan the underside of UK-bound lorries and coaches travelling through Calais - one of Europe's biggest ports. Hero bot is... [24 Jul 2008]
Caption Competition: Steve-o-Bot!
Photo This competition is now closed. The winning caption, by reader Drew Stephenson was: "Having worked on his thesis part time, Bill Gates finally graduates and is surprised by how much things have moved on. [06 Jun 2008]
Invisible Attackers: Stop the Bot
White Paper Massive distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) and phishing attacks get the headlines, but invisible attackers pose a far more common threat to your network. This 60-minute TechWiseTV video on demand from Cisco will show you how botnets... [30 Jan 2008]
Terminator's the bot that kicks the most butt
News The ultraviolent cyborg played by Arnold Schwarzenegger has been nominated as the top movie robot of all time in a poll of film fans. Terminator, released in 1984, established muscleman Arnie as an eighties screen icon, though his... [30 Aug 2001]
IRC Hacks: An Egg Timer
White Paper This paper shows how to create a simple IRC bot that sits in any number of channels and responds to the ! After three minutes, the bot will remind that ther egg is done, for this is how long it takes to... [10 Oct 2007]
Alert over Spybot worm
News An updated variant of a malicious bot program is spreading via a flaw in Symantec's antivirus software as well as through several holes in Microsoft code. Additionally, the bot program tries to exploit... [30 Nov 2006]
Zombie PC army responsible for big name web blackout
News A security professional who participated in investigating the attack confirmed that the DDoS attack apparently came from an extremely large bot net. and other major websites earlier this week involved the use of a... [17 Jun 2004]
Zombies are after your ID
News Bot nets, collections of compromised computers controlled by a single person or group, have become more pervasive and increasingly focused on identity theft and installing spyware, according to a Honeynet Project report. [15 Mar 2005]
Zombies: There are too many of them, says McAfee
News Incidents involving the malicious code, also known as "bot" code, reached 13,000 from April through June, according to a report from antivirus software maker McAfee. McAfee estimated that 63 per cent more machines were... [12 Jul 2005]
Hackers learn to attack networks with IM
News Combining the open-source tool nmap - a program that discovers devices on a network - with an IM bot, hackers can infiltrate, steal information and carry out denial-of-service attacks on networks, says the director of... [12 Oct 2004]
Police close in on NZ botnet ringleader
News The sweep is part of the FBI's second phase of 'Operation Bot Roast' - the same operation which resulted in four felony charges against US security consultant John Schiefer. In Bot Roast II, we see the... [03 Dec 2007]
IRC Hacks: A Simple Perl IRC Client
White Paper In this example, one will build a simple IRC bot that connects to an IRC server and joins a channel. The term "Bot" is commonly used to describe an automated IRC client and is a contraction of "Robot. [10 Oct 2007]
The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, and Disrupting Botnets
White Paper These systems are infected with a bot that communicates with a bot controller and other bots to form what is commonly referred to as a zombie army or botnet. Global Internet threats are undergoing a... [09 Jun 2006]
The Zombie Roundup: Understanding, Detecting, and Disrupting Botnets
These systems are infected with a bot that communicates with a bot controller and other bots to form what is commonly referred to as a zombie army or botnet. Global Internet threats are undergoing a... [09 Jun 2006]
