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domingo, outubro 23, 2005
A recently foiled botnet operation has turned out to be 15 times larger that police initially thought
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A recently foiled botnet operation has turned out to be 15 times larger that police initially thought.
On further investigation, authorities found that the operation had put about 1.5 million computers and servers under its control. The crime ring was thought to have created a botnet of 100,000 systems, which they claimed was the largest ever detected.
A botnet is a collection of computers infected with a computer worm which puts the system under the worm creator's control without the owner's knowledge.
Botnets are commonly used to host illegal web content such as child pornography, to send out spam or to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Dutch police earlier this month made three arrests in the case. They have now extended the pre-trial imprisonment of two of the suspects, the 19 year-old prime suspect and a 22 year-old accomplice.
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CIO Today - Worldwide Technology - Massive Botnet Controlled 1.5M PCs
A recently foiled botnet operation has turned out to be 15 times larger that police initially thought.
On further investigation, authorities found that the operation had put about 1.5 million computers and servers under its control. The crime ring was thought to have created a botnet of 100,000 systems, which they claimed was the largest ever detected.
A botnet is a collection of computers infected with a computer worm which puts the system under the worm creator's control without the owner's knowledge.
Botnets are commonly used to host illegal web content such as child pornography, to send out spam or to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Dutch police earlier this month made three arrests in the case. They have now extended the pre-trial imprisonment of two of the suspects, the 19 year-old prime suspect and a 22 year-old accomplice.
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CIO Today - Worldwide Technology - Massive Botnet Controlled 1.5M PCs
posted by CMT, 5:50 da tarde
