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[News] [Rival] World's Largest Supercomputers Runs Windows, Run by Crackers

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] World's Largest Supercomputers Runs Windows, Run by Crackers
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:19:48 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Storm Worm Dwarfs World's Top Supercomputers

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| The network of compromised Microsoft Windows computers under the thumb of the 
| criminals who control the Storm Worm has grown so huge that it now has more 
| raw distributed computing power than all of the world's top supercomputers, 
| security experts say.   
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/08/storm_worm_dwarfs_worlds_top_s_1.html?nav=rss_blog


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Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net

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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/


Top 500 Supers: Moore's Law Is Alive and Well

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| There are two Windows-based clusters, and 42 machines that run a mix 
| of operating systems--and one of those operating systems in the mix is 
| always a Linux and the other is a variant of Unix. If you want to be
| fair, Linux is represented on 86 percent of the machines...
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http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071007-story02.html

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