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Building the botnet by getting other people’s browsers to load a piece of JavaScript code and storing data on their computers falls into a legally gray area, Malone\u00a0said. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_3″][et_pb_blurb admin_label=”Proxy Rewrite = JavaScript Botnet” title=”Proxy Rewrite = JavaScript Botnet” url=”http:\/\/brod.io\/blog\/proxy-rewrite-javascript-botnet\/” url_new_window=”on” use_icon=”off” font_icon=”\ue058” icon_color=”#2EA3F2″ use_circle=”off” circle_color=”#2EA3F2″ use_circle_border=”off” circle_border_color=”#2EA3F2″ icon_placement=”left” animation=”left” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left” image=”https:\/\/yt.christiaan008.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/article_96_96_blue.svg” alt=”Article”]<\/p>\n After watching\u00a0Chema Alonso<\/a> at DEF CON\u00a020 I started wondering how hard it could be to build a Javascript botnet. 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\n<\/a>Date: 07-04-2014
\nSource: Arstechnica<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Date: 01-08-2013
\nSource: Networkworld<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Date: 31-07-2013
\nSource:\u00a0Threatpost<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Date: 31-07-2013
\nSource: The Register<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Date: 19-03-2013
\nSource:\u00a0Spider.io<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Date: 18-12-2012
\nSource:\u00a0PrivacyPC<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Date: 27-07-2012
\nSource:\u00a0DARKReading<\/a><\/p>\n
\nDate: 02-04-2007
\nSource: InfoWorld<\/a><\/p>\n![\"presentation_128_96_blue\"](\"https:\/\/yt.christiaan008.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/presentation_128_96_blue.svg\")
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\nSource:\u00a0BlackHat<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSource: Irongeek<\/a><\/p>\n
\nSource: Stanford University<\/a><\/p>\n![\"whitepaper_96_96_blue\"](\"https:\/\/yt.christiaan008.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/02\/whitepaper_96_96_blue.svg\")
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\nSource:\u00a0BlackHat<\/a><\/p>\n
\n<\/a>Date: 18-10-2010
\nSource:\u00a0BlackHat<\/a><\/p>\nChange your thoughts and you change your world<\/h1>\n
Believe you can and you\u2019re halfway there<\/h1>\n