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A botnet is a collection of internet-connected programs communicating with other similar programs in order to perform tasks.

A botnet's tasks can be as mundane as keeping control of an IRC channel, or it could be used to send spam email or participate in DDoS attacks. The word botnet stems from the two words robot and network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botnet

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Can it be morally defensible to release a program which games an MMORPG?

I have written presumably some of the first code to modify the memory of a popular new MMORPG in such a way as to create a macro framework, allowing for advanced automated reactions, skill/level gain, large scale data retrieval, and botting. It's my…
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How do zombies send mail?

I always wondered the following: how do infected computers send emails? I read all the stories of large botnets sending 1-2 billion emails a day. When I use the SMTP server of my ISP and I try to send my newsletter to less then 100 people my ISPs…
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ElasticSearch Groovy script error, dubious request

I've just updated to ElasticSearch 1.7.1 and was filling the database. Whilst I kept getting the following error (or debug message): [2015-08-09 03:20:23,429][DEBUG][action.search.type ] [NODE_NAME] [index_name][0],…
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GCC freaking out when I use -static

I'm trying to compile a simple botnet I made, with the command gcc -static -lpthread client.c but every time i do it, it throws these errors: /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpthread /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lc It compiles…
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Can't use Serilog Middleware on .NET 6 Project

I'm building a .NET 6 project and trying to put Serilog to work properly on it. Everything seems to work fine, but when I try to add SerilogMiddlware for requests I get this exception: Unable to resolve service for type…
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Avoid remote website inclusion

I recently saw a few malicious domains including my website pages. I initially suspected of iframe inclusion, but I already had Header always set X-Frame-Options SAMEORIGIN configured in my httpd.conf. Other ideas were about malware Javascript…
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How to locate corrupt php or WP files in Wordpress website

Alright, this is a bit of an issue: I recently got a job with an IT company (small business level), and they do a little bit of web development. Originally, the boss had a 3rd party freelance developer build a site for a major client. He was…
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mysql docker container crashes often

I am using mariadb and wordpress container. But this error keeps on happening. How can I ensure that this crash does not happen anymore ? Am I being attacked ? Or is it a problem that occurs to other people ? How can I attach to mariadb and have…
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Botnet spams server with POST and GET requests

Each request is coming from a different IP. So I think these are botnet victims still requesting a botnet script I removed a week ago. Here you can see a tiny part of the access log: 95.228.246.9 - - [26/Oct/2013:15:40:52 +0200] "POST…
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Methods to prevent DDoS based MySQL queries submitted through URL string

I'm working with a site that I did not create. It appears I'm dealing with a DDoS and/or SQL injection attack that involves querying the database through a URL string. I'm currently looking into the method of "adding slashes" to the query which I'm…
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Can we say that this is simple DDOS botnet?

This is a client program based on posix sockets and threads. The program creates multiple threads and is going to lock the server.Can we say that this is simple DDOS botnet ?. The code in C/C++ and for posix platforms. Here's the code #include…
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Labeling of ISCX Botnet Dataset 2014 in Python

I am having trouble in using the malicious IP information for CIC Botnet Dataset given on their website. It has been mentioned as follows: Distribution of botnet types in the training dataset Botnet name | Type | Portion of flows in dataset Neris…
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Protection against possible syn-flood DDoS attack

I'm running a service at a given port (let's say 1234). From time to time it's not reachable. When I check dmesg I see: TCP: Possible SYN flooding on port 1234. Sending cookies. Check SNMP counters net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog is set to 1024 When I…
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Access to user data via the StateClient for a localhost bot that isn't registered without an activity

Hi all i'm trying to save some data from a login controller to the users data store. [HttpGet, Route("api/{channelId}/{userId}/authorize")] public async System.Threading.Tasks.Task Authorize(string channelId, string userId,…
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Python echo output constantly searches but never ends

For our assignment, when we run our little bot, it gets stuck in an endless loop and we can't get it to end. All it does is constantly look for new bots i.e: Waiting for connection... Enter command: p2p echo Finding another bot... Found bot on port…
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