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
Related:
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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