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• NZ cops bust million-strong botnet ringleader

  New Zealand Police this week swooped on an alleged botnet operator in New Zealand, who the FBI claims had illegal control over one million computers.

• A million zombies threaten US national security

  More than a million PCs under the control of spammers are threatening the US national security, its economy and its information infrastructure, according to the FBI.

• Botnet fast-flux cloacking and leasing on the rise

  Security vendor RSA has reported an increase in the use of "fast-flux" to obscure zombie computer activities. However, University of Cambridge researchers disagree, saying it's the same botnet being leased out to others.

• Botnets threaten the Internet as we know it

  Botnets are the biggest threat facing the Internet today and neither education, technology or the police can help, according to experts at the RSA security conference in San Francisco last week.

• Valentine e-cards contain infections, not love

  Valentine e-greetings from a stranger are likely to contain destructive Trojans, according to the FBI.

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  Limelight kills botnets better than cops do

  Botnet operators have become public enemy number-one as consumers, businesses and governments fall foul to identity theft, DDoS attacks and spam. Yet no one appears to be able to stop the spread of bots -- except maybe the media.

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