Twitter Used To Control Botnet Machines

DikSeaCup writes "Arbor Network's Jose Nazario, an expert on botnets, discovered what looks to be the first reported case of hackers using Twitter to control botnets. 'Hackers have long used IRC chat rooms to control botnets, and have continually used clever technologies, such as peer-to-peer strategies, to counter efforts to track, disrupt and sometimes decapitate the bots. Perhaps what's surprising then is that it's taken so long for hackers to take Twitter to the dark side.' The next step, of course, is to code the tweets in such a way that they aren't so suspicious."

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/.: Ultra-Predictable

[Hellhog]

Slashdot hates Twitter and ignores the story to trash it, surprise me. Something's popular and not engineered specifically to cater to us; therefore we must hate it. Don't you guys have anything better to do than whine about things you hate - like, say, FIXING things you hate? Shit or get off the pot.