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____/ nessuno on Thursday 04 Mar 2010 15:08 : \____
> <Quote>
> The Mariposa botnet had the power to dwarf Georgia and Estonia
> cyberattacks if it had been used to launch denial of service attacks,
> say Spanish police.
>
> Months of investigations by the Guardia Civil in Spain, the FBI and
> security firm Panda Security and Defence Intelligence led to the
> takedown of the 12.7 million strong zombie network in December and the
> arrest of three suspects in Spain two months later.
>
> At a press conference announcing the operation in Madrid on Wednesday,
> Spanish police said they recovered the personal details of 800,000
> people from systems recovered from three alleged cybercriminals. This
> cache of stolen information includes bank login credentials from
> businesses and consumers as well as email passwords.
> </Quote>
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/04/mariposa_police_hunt_more_botherders/
>
> Denial of service attacks...bank login credentials...email
> passwords...yep, lower TCO all right...
Microsoft doesn't include in TCO damage caused to others (externality).
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