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[LUG] Article in NY times on botnets

 

http://tinyurl.com/yj2tr6

Excerpt

    Last spring, a program was discovered at a foreign coast guard
    agency that systematically searched for documents that had shipping
    schedules, then forwarded them to an e-mail address in China,
    according to David Rand, chief technology officer of Trend Micro, a
    Tokyo-based computer security firm. He declined to identify the
    agency because it is a customer.

    Although there is a wide range of estimates of the overall infection
    rate, the scale and the power of the botnet programs have clearly
    become immense. David Dagon, a Georgia Institute of Technology
    researcher who is a co-founder of Damballa, a start-up company
    focusing on controlling botnets, said the consensus among scientists
    is that botnet programs are present on about 11 percent of the more
    than 650 million computers attached to the Internet.


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Henry
Tue Jan  9 07:02:23 GMT 2007

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