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zombie: n. 1. [Unix] A process that has died but has not yet relinquished its
process table slot (because the parent process hasn't executed a
wait(2)
for it yet). These can be seen in
ps(1)
listings occasionally. Compare orphan. 2. A machine, especially someone's home box,
that has been cracked and is being used as part of a second-stage attack by
miscreants trying to mask their home IP address. Especially used of
machines being exploited in large gangs for a mechanized denial-of-service
attack like Tribe Flood Network; the image that goes with this is of a
veritable army of zombies mindlessly doing the bidding of a
necromancer.
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