Microsoft, FBI Takedown Citadel Botnet

hypnosec writes "Microsoft in collaboration with the FBI have successfully taken down the Citadel botnet which was known to control millions of PCs across the globe and was allegedly responsible for bank fraud in excess of $500 million. Citadel was known to have over 1,400 instances across the globe with most located in the US, Europe, India, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. It would install key-logging tools on target systems, which were then used to steal online banking credentials."

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It's fantastic that Microsoft takes responsibility

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It's great that Microsoft is saying "It was our crumby software that allowed this botnet to spawn, we've got to do something about it". But I think we've got to be really careful about giving the company any credit for it's actions. These are fundamental things which every maker of a product needs to be responsible for. If GM sold cars which exploded, they'd be taken to account. Software producers have long since gotten away with destructive negligence through the use of (often illegal) EULA's.

It's about time that the law recognised the essential nature of computers in society and the makers of such should be held to account when their product doesn't live up to expectations.