Malicious Bots

Originally designed to sabotage or annihilate websites, computerized "Bots" are increasingly used in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Focusing on the malicious use of bots and bot herder means and motivations, Malicious Bots provides a much needed a resource for understanding the scope, sophistication, and criminal uses of bots and how to more proactively protect against them. Accessibly written, but with sufficient technical detail, the book introduces botnet threats and how they function and examines the top bot attacks against financial and government networks over the last four years to reveal the who, how, and why behind them.

Year

2008

Language

English

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Editions

1

ISBN

9781420069068

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