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Cybercriminals Building New, Stealthier Networks
ancientribe writes "Cybercriminals are adopting a new method of hiding and sustaining their malicious Websites and botnet infrastructures so they'll be harder to detect, called "fast-flux," according to an article in Dark Reading. Criminal organizations behind two infamous malware families — Warezov/Stration and Storm — in the past few months have separately moved their infrastructures to so-called fast-flux service networks. The article says bad guys like fast-flux not only because it keeps them up and running, but also because it's more efficient than traditional methods of infecting victims' machines." I'm not exactly sure why this is new/different than the more well known open relay proxy networks.
translate: Scum of the earth trying to stay 1 step ahead of kings horses & men
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I will not give in to the terrorists. I will not become fearful.
Save the song-and-dance about what the word meant in the 70s and accept that language is fluid and the meaning has changed. ...or has it, even?
Crime is defined by the law, not by what you think the laws should be -- and by that standard, even most of the "white hat" hackers are "cybercriminals". So just call them hackers, please. Don't use feeble euphemisms. Canute couldn't hold back the tide and you can't change the meaning of words through minority boycotting.
If some white guy starts casually using terms like "nigger" you know something useful about them: they're an idiot racist.
The word "hacker" is a similarly useful filter.