Comments on: Google Publishes Papers On Clickbots http://searchengineland.com/google-publishes-papers-on-clickbots-10953 Search Engine Land: News On Search Engines, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Search Engine Marketing (SEM) Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:39:57 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Martinez http://searchengineland.com/google-publishes-papers-on-clickbots-10953/comment-page-1#comment-1944 Michael Martinez Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:05:12 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-publishes-papers-on-clickbots-10953.php#comment-1944 It's a good start but there is a lot more out there and they really need to demonstrate that they have a handle on this. It’s a good start but there is a lot more out there and they really need to demonstrate that they have a handle on this.

]]> By: savage http://searchengineland.com/google-publishes-papers-on-clickbots-10953/comment-page-1#comment-1943 savage Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:13:12 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/google-publishes-papers-on-clickbots-10953.php#comment-1943 "The Clickbot.A botnet was first publicly reported by Swa Frantzen, an incident handler at SANS [4], in mid-May 2006. At the time, based on a screenshot of the botmaster administration console obtained by Frantzen (similar to the one shown in Figure 2), the bot client was believed to have been running on just over 100 machines. Frantzen was able to obtain access to the botmaster administration console because it was not protected by a password, HTTP authentication, or IP whitelisting." I was anticipating a far more exciting discovery. “The Clickbot.A botnet was first publicly reported by Swa
Frantzen, an incident handler at SANS [4], in mid-May 2006.
At the time, based on a screenshot of the botmaster administration
console obtained by Frantzen (similar to the one shown
in Figure 2), the bot client was believed to have been running
on just over 100 machines. Frantzen was able to obtain access
to the botmaster administration console because it was not protected
by a password, HTTP authentication, or IP whitelisting.”

I was anticipating a far more exciting discovery.

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