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Researcher builds botnet-powered distributed file storage system using JavaScript

2013-08-05 19:52:00| InfoWorld: Top News

The latest Web technologies can be used to build a secure and distributed file storage system by loading a piece of JavaScript code into users' Web browsers without them knowing, a researcher demonstrated Sunday at the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas. The botnet-type system is called HiveMind and was built by Sean T. Malone, a principal security consultant at penetration testing firm FusionX.

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