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FBI Releases Results of Operation Bot Roast

coondoggie writes to tell us that the FBI has released the findings of their recent botnet study and have identified over 1 million botnet crime victims. "The FBI is working with industry partners, including the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center at Carnegie Mellon University, to notify the victim owners of the computers. Microsoft and the Botnet Task Force have also helped out the FBI. Through this process the FBI may uncover additional incidents in which botnets have been used to facilitate other criminal activity, the FBI said in a statement.Bots are widely recognized as one of the top scourges of the industry. Gartner predicts that by year-end 75% of enterprises 'will be infected with undetected, financially motivated, targeted malware that evaded traditional perimeter and host defenses.'"

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  1. Skip the spammy site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative
  2. Re:Solution by Novotny · · Score: 5, Funny

    Where's the link? How can I click it if there's no link?

  3. Re:I thought I knew what I was doing too by PitaBred · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oohh, oooh, analogy time!

    "I accidentally got my girlfriend pregnant by pulling out too late. After giving the kid up for adoption, we tried using a condom, but I didn't care for it, so now I'm back to pulling out, and hoping she doesn't get pregnant, because I really don't know what happened the first time."