| 单词 | zombie network |
| 释义 | > as lemmaszombie network 7. Computing. A computer or computer network infected with malicious software and controlled without the owner's knowledge, typically used to send spam, perform distributed denial of service attacks, etc. Frequently more fully as zombie computer, zombie network, etc. Cf. botnet n. (b) at bot n.5 Compounds. ΚΠ 1996 Digest Papers COMPCON '96 58/2 In an age of colorful, network-based threats such as viruses, worms, freeloaders, and zombies, there is amply justified reluctance to blindly execute unknown code.] 1999 Infoworld Daily News (Nexis) 9 Dec. The hackers are gaining control of as many as thousands of vulnerable zombie computers in order to magnify and direct their full-scale assault against a single victim from all directions. 2000 Computer Weekly 2 Mar. 44/3 The group of machines used for the attack—sometimes called a zombie network—can be anywhere in the Internet, and consists of machines that have security weaknesses due to misconfiguration etc. 2002 P. Lilley Hacked, Attacked, & Abused 200 The zombie then transmits a massive amount of packets of useless data to a specific Web site, thus clogging it up and achieving a denial of service attack. 2013 T. Chatfield Netymology xxxix. 121 A ‘zombie computer’ is one that, unknown to its owner, has been infected with malicious software that allows a distant ‘zombie master’ to control it, along with potentially thousands of other machines similarly affected. < as lemmas |
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