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Definitions
Etymologies
- From bot + net. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The term botnet refers to what the software does once you're compromised.”
“And if the term "botnet" is a stumper, then the show and PBS are fulfilling their educational mission.”
“A botnet is a network of infected computers that can number in the thousands, and that network is usually controlled by hackers through a small number of scattered PCs.”
The Washington Post: Internet security plan under review would alert users to hacker takeover
“Total machines active at any time in botnet networks: 15 million”
“The latest criminal activity linked to the ZeuS botnet is a software package tailored to BlackBerry and Symbian mobile phones and that picks off SMS messages, apparently to break the two-factor authentication that mobile bank customers use to access their accounts, researchers says.”
IDG: ZeuS botnet has a new use: Stealing bank access codes via SMS
“The gang running the behemoth Storm botnet is not fooling around today.”
“But the Storm botnet is far and away the largest ever measured.”
“The men were suspected of running the Mariposa botnet, named after the Spanish word for butterfly, Spain's Civil Guard said on Tuesday.”
“Spain's Civil Guard said yesteday that it arrested three men suspected of running the so-called Mariposa botnet, named after the Spanish word for butterfly.”
“According to the company, the botnet is a variant of the ZeuS botnet, which is known primarily for stealing banking credentials.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘botnet’.
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science fact or fiction
pretty open-ended here—terms, ideas, lingo, technologies and phenomena (real or postulated) that are, were, should be or could be used in speculative fiction
tachyon, mecha, dropship, wetware, meatspace, nanobot, cloned meat, asteroid mining, hyperdrive, wormhole, parallel universe, distributed intel... and 468 more...
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Technologos
Cool technology-related words.
transclusion, interpolation, hypertext, munge, arpabet, dissemination, meta, orthogonal, discombobulated, postcyberpunk, asynchronicity, octothorpe and 27 more...
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bertilak's Words
antidisestablishm..., feldercarb, wainscoting, eleemosynary, oxymoron, fuliginous, libration, lammergeier, saxifrage, ichor, lambent, smaragdine and 414 more...
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The Collection
A somewhat discriminatory list of words and phrases collected for their euphonic or arcane appeal, interesting etymology, or concise definition of an otherwise unnamed phenomenon or concept.
ziggurat, neophilia, sucker punch, soporific, epoch, tundra, fiat, idiotproof, miscellany, metaphysics, cryptozoology, dysphoria and 856 more...
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Umbersorrow
Intangible, anthropic.
States of being are listed on oofy.njiju, glark, deplore, afterlithe, tagmass, spuriosity, forkful, chelation, oding, ploat, botnet, quedeship and 477 more...
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Just Plain Weird.
Something about these words doesn't look or feel right. And yet... they're strangely appealing.
pumpkin, platypus, atlatl, pterodactyl, octopus, veldt, asparagus, aspic, lacquer, mastiff, weevil, lapis and 156 more...
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Words of the Times
Words discovered while reading The New York Times, each with a citation from the paper.
testilying, ghost talk, apneist, solastalgia, izakaya, hooker, telectroscope, airflyte, phomance, bromhidrosis, stinky feet, cupping and 482 more...
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ideas out loud
bandwagon, middle, via, web, fly, thru, safety, thor, swoosh, top, network effect, matrix and 200 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for botnet.
yarb Me too. Aug 6, 2008
chained_bear I just love this word. Aug 6, 2008
john "The new form of attack indicates that little progress has been made in defusing the threat of botnets, networks of infected computers that criminals use to send spam, steal passwords and do other forms of damage, according to computer security investigators."
The New York Times, Russian Gang Hijacking PCs in Vast Scheme, by John Markoff, August 5, 2008 Aug 6, 2008