19-year-old 'fast flux' botnet pioneer agrees to plead guilty
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| The author of a Trojan that broke new ground in botnet circles has agreed to
| plead guilty to secretly infecting thousands of victims' machines so that he
| could steal their personal data and launch attacks on websites.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/28/nugache_creator_plea_agreement/
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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