Re: Botmaster: Invasion of the Computer Snatchers

["Thomas C. Greene" <thomas.greene () theregister co uk>]

Jeez, i thought this 'phear the skr1pt k1d33' drivel had gone mercifully 
out of fashion in the last millennium.

chrz,
t.


Fergie wrote:
> Brian Krebs writes in The Washington Post (for Sunday, February 19,
> 2006; Page W10):
>
> [snip]
>
> In the six hours between crashing into bed and rolling out of it, the 21-year-old hacker has broken into nearly 2,000 
> personal computers around the globe. He slept while software he wrote scoured the Internet for vulnerable computers and 
> infected them with viruses that turned them into slaves.
>
> Now, with the smoke of his day's first Marlboro curling across the living room of his parents' brick rambler, the hacker known 
> online as "0x80" (pronounced X-eighty) plops his wiry frame into a tan, weathered couch, sets his new laptop on the coffee table 
> and punches in a series of commands. At his behest, the commandeered PCs will begin downloading and installing software that will bombard 
> their users with advertisements for pornographic Web sites. After the installation, 0x80 orders the machines to search the Internet for 
> other potential victims.
>
> The young hacker, who has agreed to be interviewed only if he isn't identified by name or home town, takes a deep drag 
> of his smoke and leans back against the couch to exhale. He smiles. This is his day job, and his work is finished in less 
> than two minutes. In two weeks, he will receive a $300 check from one of the online marketing companies that pays him for 
> his services.
>
> [snip]
>
> More here:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021401342.html
>
> - ferg
>
>
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>  Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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