The gang, with members in the U.S., U.K., Macedonia, New Zealand, Croatia and Bosnia and Hertzegovina, were responsible for an $850 million crime spree.
For computer viruses everywhere, today is something akin to the day Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal. Two years ago today, the Storm botnet (sometimes called the Storm worm botnet) had a career day, sending a record 57 million emails in a 24-hour period.
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Two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have shown they can reverse engineer a person's Social Security number using, ironically, nothing more than data from publicly available data on government sites, and the data you share with the world on Facebook.
