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We often hear about botnets (networks of infected computers) being used to send out spam, perform Distributed Denial of Service attacks or other nefarious activities by the bad guys. Well, an unidentified researcher thought there was much more that could be done with a botnet and took on an unprecedented mission to map out the Internet by looking at how many single IP addresses were in use. An ambitious goal you might say, but considering the botnet was scanning billions of ports per hour, it provides a never-before seen view and “census” of the Internet IPv4 address space.http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intell...security-practices-a-disaster-in-the-making/#