The article is full of technical misconceptions, but if I had to guess:
1) Botnets give you a ton of bandwidth to run port scans or crawling searches.
2) They also allow you to "map" port scans or searches over thousands of computers (e.g. one computer in the botnet scans one specific port times ten thousand ports), obscuring the fact that a scan is even occurring.
1) Botnets give you a ton of bandwidth to run port scans or crawling searches.
2) They also allow you to "map" port scans or searches over thousands of computers (e.g. one computer in the botnet scans one specific port times ten thousand ports), obscuring the fact that a scan is even occurring.