Sentences with phrase «kind of botnet»

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A botnet becomes a platform, with spam just one «program» among others that runs on the platform alongside things such as key cracking (breaking passwords and encryption), clickfraud (automated «clicking» on ads to increase revenue to the ad host), identity theft of all kinds, and DDoS attacks — and potentially much more.

The territory of what is uniquely and reliably human (and can be automatically tested at scale, over different kinds of interfaces) is one of interesting zones given to future technologists to explore — if only to keep the botnets at bay.

There doesn't, for instance, seem to be much stopping the makers of the kinds of devices that got swept up in Friday's botnet attacks from jumping in with an Alexa skill of their own.