TechRepublic - Network Administrator: Botnets: New and certainly improved

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Recent news about botnet activity is far from reassuring, with bigger and better seeming to be the trend. Let's try and figure out how and why the good guys are losing.

January 18th, 2009
By Michael Kassner

A paradox immediately jumps out at me. The world’s economy is tanking, yet the dark side seems to be thriving. Has the Internet made it easier for the bad guys? Is the RoI that good, allowing malware creators to continually improve products like the Storm worm? It seems so.

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