Forwarded from: Dude VanWinkle <dudevanwinkle (at) gmail.com> On Nov 30, 2007 4:14 AM, InfoSec News <alerts@private> wrote: > http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/11/fbi-cracks-down.html > > By Ryan Singel > Wired.com - Threat Level > November 29, 2007 > > The FBI announced Thursday it had indicted or successfully prosecuted > eight individuals in a crack down on black hat hackers who use armies > of zombie computers to commit financial fraud, attack web sites with > floods of traffic and send spam. The crimes at issue involved more > than $20 million in losses, according to the FBI Once again: Taking down the army of a botmaster of millions without disabling the botnet just makes sure the treasures of bot-armies past will be handed down to the next script kiddie in line. Even though the first attempt at this was bungled by a child not experienced in matters failed, I think its worth another shot to send an "update your security and uninstall" final release before just leaving these willing combatants to another "dick-tater", as long as the software the FBi/NSA/SGC is audited by the open sores community.. -JP __________________________________________________________________ Visit InfoSec News http://www.infosecnews.org/
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