Hackers control PCs while users unaware
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| Computer security experts estimate that tens of millions of personal
| computers are infected with malicious software like the one that attacked
| Locklear's machine. Such programs, generally classified as malware, attack
| companies along with consumers.
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| Some are keyloggers, recording every key stroke that the user enters --
| sending valuable bank account information, passwords and credit card numbers
| to hackers.
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http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2007-09-21T101622Z_01_N09232611_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLUMN-PLUGGEDIN.xml
http://tinyurl.com/36kzkr
Related:
Botnet 'pandemic' threatens to strangle the net
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| Cerf estimated that between 100 million and 150 million of the
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| 600 million PCs on the internet are under the control of hackers,
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| the BBC reports.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/botnet_threat/
FBI to Notify Microsoft Windows Users Who Were Victims of Botnets
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| The Department of Justice and FBI have announced the results of
| an ongoing cyber crime initiative to disrupt and dismantle
| “botherders” and elevate the public’s cyber security
| awareness of botnets.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/general/10550/fbi-notify-microsoft-windows-users-who-were-victims-botnets
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