Friday, June 24, 2005

An Army of Soulless 1's and 0's - New York Times

An Army of Soulless 1's and 0's - New York Times: "Experts say hundreds of thousands of computers each week are being added to the ranks of zombies, infected with software that makes them susceptible to remote deployment for a variety of illicit purposes, from overwhelming a Web site with traffic - a so-called denial-of-service attack - to cracking complicated security codes. In most instances, the user of a zombie computer is never aware that it has been commandeered."

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