{"id":5374,"date":"2007-04-10T10:02:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T10:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/botnets-terrorism-and-crime.html"},"modified":"2007-04-10T10:02:50","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T10:02:50","slug":"botnets-terrorism-and-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/security\/botnets-terrorism-and-crime.html","title":{"rendered":"Botnets, Terrorism and Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">This MSNBC <a href=\"http:\/\/redtape.msnbc.com\/2007\/04\/whos_behind_cri.html#posts\">article<\/a> on botnets is a well-written piece detailing where botnet gangs come from, their &ldquo;hacker scholarship&rdquo; programs and the potential for these powerful bot networks to shut down sites on a moments notice if they so choose. In addition there is a discussion of these bot networks being used as terrorist tools &ndash; a horrifying thought.<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">Want more? Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/redtape.msnbc.com\/2007\/04\/virus_gang_warf.html\">discussion<\/a> about how competitive these bot networks are with one another. The largest network has the ability to extort the most money from gambling sites for example. How? They shut a legitimate site down with traffic from their network of infected computers. The targeted sites are so flooded with traffic, legitimate users cannot get to them&nbsp;to conduct business.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This MSNBC article on botnets is a well-written piece detailing where botnet gangs come from, their &ldquo;hacker scholarship&rdquo; programs and the potential for these powerful bot networks to shut down sites on a moments notice if they so choose. In addition there is a discussion of these bot networks being used as terrorist tools &ndash;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}