Zero Botnets: Building a Global Effort to Clean Up the Internet

by Robert K Knake and Jason Healey

Botnets are the bane of the internet. Criminals use these groups of computers infected with malicious software to propagate spam, send phishing emails, guess passwords, impersonate users, and break encryption. Their most pernicious use, however, is to carry out distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. DDoS attacks harness the power of the individual computers that make up the botnet to send internet traffic to a target, thereby blocking legitimate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876097603
• ISBN13: 9780876097601
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"