The PayPal and Visa websites were attacked successfully, but the main perpetrators weren't the "hive": the real firepower came from a couple of individuals with "botnets", illegal networks of compromised computers.
[The Georgia Tech team's] attack [to be shown at the Usenix Security Symposium] requires the victim's computer to have malware installed, but there's a thriving community of people known as "botnet herders" who sell access to large networks of compromised computers.
This explains why the overall cyber-insurance market is still small: one recent estimate puts it at $2 billion.Governments are weighing in, too, not least by supporting private-sector efforts to clean up "botnets", or networks of compromised computers controlled by hackers.
Essentially, they have managed to entangle the old system, already encumbered by bureaucracy, with a network of new compromises.
Botnets (think roBOT + NETwork gets you "BOTNET") are a network of secretly compromised, run-of-the-mill home and office computers that have malicious software controlled by a solitary hacker or cybercrime ring.
Networks of already compromised computers, known as "botnets," distribute these zero-day attacks.
SpyEye's controllers are believed to have built up a huge network, or botnet, of compromised computers they regularly ransacked for information.
Motherhood may look like a genre, but in reality it is an infinitesimal network of secret pacts and compromises, of private bargainings with the self.
By applying Markov chain analysis to the process of network intrusion, a statistical formula that relates the probability of a network being compromised to the probability of occurrence of intrusion will be obtained.
"The miracle of worldwide cellular networks is in fact a huge set of compromises all over the place.
