Monster botnet held 800,000 people's details
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 …
More botnets to take down...
... particularly these objectionable ones, with millions of PCs held in their evil grasp:
MSN
RE: More botnets to take down...
You missed the most obvious one - windows!
People usually get infected at work and as a result, when they buy a new PC they actually ASK for it to be installed for them...
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Are they using a 50p mic from Escom?
Are they using a 50p mic from Escom?
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