____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 03 January 2008 16:10 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Boom times for hi-tech criminals
>>
>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>| Paul Henry, vice president of technology evangelism at Secure Computing
>>| said the tool of choice for many hi-tech criminals was the botnet - a
>>| collection of hijacked home PCs.
>>|
>>| "Botnets are now a well-organised tool," he said. "They are at a point now
>>| where they are creating smaller botnets from larger ones."
>> `----
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7154187.stm
>>
>
> One has to wonder whether the world's largest supercomputers are not, in
> fact, the folding@home clusters, but instead, are the botnets of
> hijacked Windows computers.
>
There was a set of articles about it a couple of months ago. Windows botnets
make some of the world's most powerful 'supercomputers' (sadly owned by
criminal). Some people tried to refuse these reports.
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