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Bredolab Botnet Taken Down
Leon Buijs writes "Monday a 27-year-old Armenian was arrested at request of the Dutch authorities. The Dutch police think he is the brain behind the infamous, 30 million infected computers large Bredolab network, that was taken down by their Team (in Dutch) High Crime. Bredolab was used to spread virii and spam via the Netherlands. While taking the botnet down at a Dutch ISP, the suspect did several attempts to regain control. When this didn't work out, he did a DDoS attack on the ISP's servers using a 220,000 computers botnet. However, this was also broken off by taking 3 servers offline that the Armanian used for this, in Paris."
If we can prove beyond reasonable doubt that he is indeed the mastermind behind all this, I say we make a spectacle of him.
Hang him, and broadcast it on all networks at prime time. Have his remains rot at the rope for a few weeks, with daily updates on the news.
Perhaps that would deter others. This has got to stop.
If I created a botnet, then used it to force all the computers to run Folding@Home. Would I still be evil?
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
"Virii" as plural for "computer virus" has been in use for at least the last 12 years. I recall downloading various examples of "virii" for DOS. They were generally .COM infectors; for instance, TINY143, if memory serves, was a simple (and tiny) example that I came across while learning about writing such programs.
It's a word, just one used by nerdy teenagers that want to be cool.
What's new (for me at least), is that the authorities informed over 100,000 computer users of their infection/participation via an ISP by redirecting them to a warning published here by the dutch police. Not sure if that's common policy or something we'll see more often.
...a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore ~H2G2
Yes, because pedantry and slavish worship of Tom Christiansen is more important than providing a search-engine friendly way to distinguish between biological viruses and computer virii .
When did computer geeks become completely incapable of basic logic?
We spelled it byte and not bite for goddamned reason, you know.
I'll get modded flamebait, I suppose. Here's a translation for people who can't understand that a separate concept is best delineated by a separate word.
Marklar, because marklar and marklar marklar of Marklar is more marklar than providing a marklar marklar marklar to distinguish between marklar and marklar .
Well-actually... the latin word virus was non-count, the way we use "water" - they did not know at the time that a virus was a discrete object rather than a substance. So the plural of virus is... virus :-)
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