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Update: Akill walks free
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| Owen Walker, the 18-year-old Whitianga resident also known as Akill, was
| discharged without conviction in the High Court in Hamilton earlier today.
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| University of Auckland cyber security guru Peter Gutmann told Computerworld
| in April that some of the technologies used by Akill was state-of-the-art
| about five years ago. His botnet was controlled via IRC (internet relay chat)
| systems, which was also common a few years back, said Gutmann. Other,
| well-hidden botnets instead have peer-to-peer-like structures in which the
| bots use encryption and trusted relationships to communicate, said Christian
| Seifert, a computer security PhD student at Wellington’s Victoria University.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/E483640BAD16B7A4CC2574860080C5D0
Kiwi botmaster escapes conviction despite guilty plea
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| An NZ teenager who became notorious for masterminding the creation of one of
| the largest cybercrime networks has escaped conviction, despite admitting
| computer hacking and fraud offences.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/15/nz_botmaster_escapes_conviction/
So many botnets and zombies. It's already taken for granted.
Recent:
I Was A Teenage Bot Master
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| One day in May 2005, a 16-year-old hacker...
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| So great was SoBe's sense of impunity he continued the scheme even after
| Ancheta was arrested a few months later and charged with 17 felonies related
| to the hijacking of almost 400,000 PCs, some of them belonging to the US
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
| Department of Defense.
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/05/08/downfall_of_botnet_master_sobe_owns/
Bots rule in cyberspace
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| USA TODAY REPORTS that on an average day, 40 per cent of the 800 million
| computers connected to the Internet are bots used to send out spam, viruses
| and to mine for sensitive personal data.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/03/17/bots-rule-cyberspace
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