Chapter 2 botnets (3)

 Look at their conversation, Bin items are a bit funny, but also some kind, after all he had also had this experience, that is when the young and fit, really miss ah! Punched a big yawn, the decision whether the two items Bin little guy, and he felt as if the body has reached its limit. But this time, a term once again comes h1 attracted his attention - botnets.

    What is this botnet? Item Bin naturally know the English name is BotNet, so it was a direct call "Porter net." In English, Bot is a robot means, so translated as "network robots" also makes sense, anyway, the kind only the computer being controlled.

    Botnet is centralized control of the Internet by a group of computer hackers, yes, a group, formed a small group of computer network, is often used by hackers to launch a large-scale attacks, such as distributed denial of service attack (DDos ), sending a flood of spam, since these computers have been mastered in the same hands of hackers, will make that possible, and powerful. Way to control the bots is the IRC channel mentioned earlier, the owner of the botnet IRC channels as long as a control, then the command in the channel, all the bots will receive the command, and then at the same action.

    Will BotNet is translated into the image of a botnet, is with Chinese characteristics, these computers like the zombies of folklore as being "Vampire Man" with "special methods" control, you can order them to do anything. Whether the safe operation of the network or data security protection for the user (zombie computer hackers free access to all the information), botnets have a hidden threat in the eyes, it is also particularly concerned by the public, not only the security community, hacker community as well.

    In the eyes of those who just hackers, botnets is nothing short of Magic's Mo Gong, murderous, dog in the manger, great harm, would seriously interfere with users of the network life. However, Bin items are not just hackers, not Internet police, but not stuffy, he is accustomed to seeing such things do not blame. However, they talk about has caused great interest in the items Bin, so he decided to continue to monitor and continue to view their chat, hoping to find some useful information.