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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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