GREENWICH - Perched in front of three computer monitors in his office at the high school, Tom Bobkowski watches as 16 scenes unfold simultaneously across campus: Teenagers exiting the hallway; a student pacing across an outdoor path; a car pulling

When ‘botnets’ attack, PCs become zombies that spread spam - Chicago Tribune
REDMOND, Wash. - In a windowless room on Microsoft ’s campus here, T.J. Campana, a cybercrime investigator, connects an unprotected computer running an early version of Windows XP to the Internet. In less than a minute the computer is “owned.” An

Zombie PCs: Time to infection is less than five minutes - ZDNet Blogs
A fascinating and horrifying new article in The New York Times offers the lowdown on zombie computers , the half-a-million-or-so machines that are converted, assembled into systems called botnets and forced to do a shadowy figure

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