Botnet master sees himself as next Bill Gates
Owen Walker's future seems brighter today than it did a year ago. Walker, 19, had been facing possible jail time for running a massive botnet, but in July a New Zealand judge ordered him to pay a fine after he pleaded guilty to hacking charges.
New Windows worm builds massive botnet
The worm exploiting a critical Windows bug that Microsoft Corp. patched with an emergency fix in late October is being used to build a new botnet, a security researcher said Monday.
Anti-virus no defense against botnets, says vendor
A new analysis of botnets has come up with a possible reason for their prodigious ability to infect PCs - many anti-virus programs are near to useless in blocking the binaries used to spread them.
Estonian ISP cuts off control servers for Srizbi botnet
An Estonian ISP that temporarily hosted the control servers for a botnet responsible for a large portion of the world's spam has cut off those servers.
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