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An Internet bot, also known as web robot, WWW robot or simply bot, is a software application that runs automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human. Each server can have a file called robots.txt, containing rules for the spidering of that server that the bot is supposed to obey or be removed.Another, more malicious use of bots is the coordination and operation of an automated attack on networked computers, such as a denial-of-service attack by a botnet. Internet bots can also be used to commit click fraud and more recently have seen usage around MMORPG games as computer game bots. A spambot is an internet bot that attempts to spam large amounts of content on the Internet, usually adding advertising links.

Rampaging webcams take over Internet

By The Editors / September 30, 2016

Tags: AI, botnet

Webcams take over the Internet, Blackberry outsources phone manufacturing and a small green frog becomes a target of hatred. Oh, and AI companies begin determining how to stop AI from taking over the world. What could possibly go wrong?

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The 3 biggest network security superheroes

By Rachel Foster / August 10, 2012

Tags: Alan Turing, botnet, cybercrime, Featured, network security, Trend Micro, virus

In this three-part series, expertIP is exploring the good, the bad and the ugly of security threats. First up: those who have helped to identify international threats, bring down hackers and even save the world

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What DNSChanger should teach us

By Shane Schick / July 20, 2012

Tags: botnet, DNSChanger, FBI, Featured, IT departments, IT security, maleware

We may have avoided an Internet shutdown earlier this month, but the malware’s end may signal a new era of collective responsibility

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