Botnet
A large network of compromised devices controlled together, often without their owners' knowledge.
Learn it through a story
- The Hostel Router Hack (Cybersecurity for Juniors 2, Ch 6)
Related terms
- Baseline behaviour What's normal for an account or system, used to recognise what isn't.
- Blast radius How far the impact of a compromise or mistake can spread from its starting point.
- Blue team The defenders who detect, respond to, and fix what the red team finds.
- Branch protection Repository rules requiring review or checks before code can merge into a main branch.
- Broken object-level authorization (BOLA) An API that checks login but not whether the specific requested record belongs to the requester.
- Bug bounty programme A company's published invitation to test specific systems, often with a reward for valid findings.