Building a Better Botnet (E-Commerce Times)
Two days after actor Heath Ledger died, e-mails began moving across the Internet purportedly carrying a link to a detailed police report divulging "the real reason" behind the actor's death. Ledger had been summarily drafted into the service of a botnet. Bots are compromised computers controlled by profit-minded crooks. Those e-mails were spread by a network of thousands of bots, called a ...
