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PC World October 24, 2007 Erik Larkin	The Internet's Public Enemy Number One The Storm Worm has infected so many machines that it's now one of the most powerful supercomputers.
InternetNews March 17, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner	Botnets on The Run? Security researchers have identified numerous botnets of zombies in recent days and in at least one case ended their reign of the undead.
CIO November 1, 2005 Matt Villano	Seeing No Evil CIOs are growing increasingly frustrated at the laissez-faire attitude of many ISPs toward security. Is it time to consider regulating the ISP industry?
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InternetNews August 14, 2009	Twitter Used as Botnet Control As bot herders learn to exploit legitimate sites, researchers warn that IT managers will need to monitor social media closely.
PC Magazine August 20, 2008 Matthew D. Sarrel	There's a Bot in Your PC Aiding the rise of blended threats around the world, botnets are digging in and using your network as a base of operations.
Bank Technology News May 2006 Holly Sraeel	If Financial Crime is Rising, Then Security is Job #1 Furthered along by a loosely knit network of criminals, cybercrime is being waged by hackers and botmasters for profit in ways that are often not easily tracked by financial institutions, law enforcement authorities and governments.
InternetNews March 16, 2009 Alex Goldman	Report Says Spam Arms Race Escalating The bad guys are recovering from the loss of McColo and learning how to prevent being taken down so easily again.
InternetNews May 18, 2007 Sean Michael Kerner	Estonia Under Russian Cyber Attack? Data by a security research firm clearly shows that a full-scale assault is under way, but the attackers' identity and location is still uncertain.
BusinessWeek August 13, 2009 Joel Schectman	Computer Hacking Made Easy Botnet attacks like the one that took down Twitter are becoming so easy and cheap, almost anyone can do it.
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InternetNews August 7, 2009	Facebook, Twitter Attacks Aimed for One User An anti-Russian blogger with profiles on a number of sites may have been the intended target of yesterday's attack.
InternetNews January 24, 2006 Ed Sutherland	'Botmaster' Pleads Guilty to Zombie Profits A 20-year-old Los Angeles man faces up to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to federal charges he profited from an army of 400,000 zombie computers.
InternetNews April 27, 2009 Alex Goldman	Conficker Awakens With Scareware and Spam The new activity on the Conficker botnet shows that the criminal economy is functioning well.
PC World October 22, 2002 Berger & Weil	Internet Backbone Withstands Attack Monday's denial of service attack called major, but few noticed thanks to Net's redundancies.
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InternetNews July 14, 2009	Inside Korea's Cyber Attack What really happened in South Korea? Attackers used the country's high-speed network against itself.
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CIO July 15, 2005 Grant Gross	To Stop Hacker Attacks, Don't Rely on ISPs In a mock trail, a jury of IT security professionals decided that it should be an owner's responsibility, not an ISPs, to protect against viruses and worms.
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InternetNews December 29, 2005 Roy Mark	Oregon Man Cops Plea in eBay DDOS Attack A 21-year-old Oregon man faces up to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty this week for his role in launching a distributed denial of service attack on eBay in 2003.
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PC Magazine August 1, 2007 Eileen Travers	The Botnet Mafia The online underworld is buying and selling control of your computer, but law enforcement is fighting back.
InternetNews January 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari	Spammers Working to Regain Lost Ground Businesses can expect more malware this year as the spammers recover from the McColo take-down.
InternetNews October 25, 2006 Roy Mark	Floridian Charged in Akamai Attack A 32-year-old Floridian faces charges in Massachusetts for his alleged role in launching a distributed denial of service attack on Akamai Technologies.
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BusinessWeek October 2, 2006 Ben Elgin	Click Fraud's Next Frontier If you place an advertisement on Google or Yahoo!, and you're paying the search giants each time somebody clicks, it would be nice to know that the clicker is a human being who might actually purchase your product. Unfortunately, there are no such assurances.
InternetNews December 1, 2008 Richard Adhikari	Botnets Bouncing Back Despite McColo's takedown, observers say that major senders of spam and malware are returning - and may be stronger than ever.
InternetNews August 29, 2006 Roy Mark	Botnet Perp Hit With Three-Year Prison Term Adware scam results in damaged computers at Seattle hospital and U.S. military installations.
InternetNews July 19, 2005 Tim Gray	Download Politely Asks Spammers to Stop Security firm looks to clean up the information highway by sending an automated response to spammers. Some question the ethics of the approach.
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National Defense October 2009 Jean & Erwin	Research Detects Spamming Attacks Researchers at Microsoft have developed a system to detect botnet attacks on Web email providers
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Popular Mechanics June 2007 Joel Johnson	Hack Attack: Is the Whole Internet at Risk? Some hackers recently tried to take down the entire World Wide Web. You didn't even notice because the Internet is so robust.