Hacker maps Internet by enslaving thousands of vulnerable machines

An anonymous researcher used methods commonly employed in malicious hacking to get information on every IP address on the Internet, and has publicly released the results. Though he did it with good intentions — and created a database that may well prove useful to research — the project was definitely illegal.The technical aspects of the research are explained in the paper itself, but the simplest ...

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