Thursday, March 17, 2005
zombiepalooza -- you lose
From the BBC, more nasty news on the computer-security front: It's estimated that fully one million PCs out there have been recruited into the zombie spamming-and-spying armies. We here at USA Today have a good primer on how one's computer ends up zombified (hint: Windows plus incautious security plus about ten minutes online), while the Honeynet Project & Research Alliance does a good job of explaining how they arrived at these particular numbers.
