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Bredolab Botnet Taken Down

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the nothing-else-happening-today dept.

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."

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  1. Don't use made up words by nyctopterus · · Score: 4, Informative

    In before everyone else: there is no such word as 'virii'.

    1. Re:Don't use made up words by zorg50 · · Score: 4, Informative

      On top of that, every sentence in the summary contains at least one grammatical error.

    2. Re:Don't use made up words by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Insightful

      there is no such word as 'virii'.

      Forsooth, dear sir! Thou hast yon goode pointe! Tounges be set upon stone, which hitherto is why Middle English is spake by e'ry gentleman today!

      Which is to say, languages change. The summary used "virii,"we all knew what it meant, and it passes the "doesn't annoy me" test. So by my standards, it is a word despite what you and Webster's might say.

    3. Re:Don't use made up words by blair1q · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, some are still mad at each other.

    4. Re:Don't use made up words by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's nearest synonym in English is "slime" or "pus", or the noun sense of "ooze", but we use it for "microphage", giving it countability. Like "water" or "blue" have no true plural in English

      Nonsense!!

      water => waterii
      blue => blii
      slime => slimii
      puss =>pusii
      ooze => oiiii!

      Now, please add them to your dictionary.

  2. Capital Punishment!... Really!... Read On... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Here's the deal. Back in the old west, horse staling was a capital crime. You didn't even need to be a real law enforcement officer to string someone up for stealing a horse!

    Why was that? We don't knock off every car thief today, so why such harsh tratment for horse thieves? Two simple factors:

    1. Horses were HUGELY important to the old west economy!

    2. Stealing a horse is REALLY easy!

    So... They made stealing a horse a capital crime as a strong deterrent to protect the business model from an otherwise trivial act.

    See any Paralells???... The only way to deter hacking is to make the punishment much more severe than it is now. I'm not saying firing squad is the way to go for this guy, but something really bad.

    Any Suggestions???