Botnet creator pleads guilty to infecting computers
25th Jan 2006, 02:50 GMT
A 20 year-old admitted in court that he was guilty of taking over thousands of computers and renting out the "zombie" network to all comers. Is this the beginning of serious action against botnet operators?
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