What is in a name?
botnet /bɒt nɛt/
-noun
botnet (plural botnets)
- A powerful distributed computing topology which benefits from the geographical diversity of its install base and depends less on high bandwidth/low-latency connections. This allows often idle and mostly underutilized broadband internet connections to be assimilated in great numbers to perform synchronized tasks, diagnostics and often allow the controller through advanced command-and-control facilities to perform ad-hoc tasks and control different types of resources in one central location.
- A component in many malware infestations. Because of power and ease of control, malware distributors have coupled botnet technology with their worms and viruses, effectively doing great harm to the reputation of botnets. Be educated, but do not be fooled -- botnets are not themselves to be feared.
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FACT: Botnets are proving to actually HELP track down malware authors. Detectable command and control traffic finally gives investigators a 'smoking gun' and a trail of breadcrumbs to follow back to the source.
Botnets are giving malware investigators a look at worms, viruses and trojan horses that they have only dreamed of having in the past. Using available tools, organizations can detect anomalous traffic quickly and identify new threats and mitigate them accordingly. Since there is a phone-home feature built into the C&C, infected hosts can often be detected by network administrators rather than requiring specialized scans of all machines as emergency scanners became available and anti-virus software is updated.
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