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The article reports on a new investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) designed to combat 'bot-nets,' networks strung together with hijacked computers used to steal data and send spam, causing disruptions in the Internet. The article reports that the FBI sees these bot-nets as...

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Publicado en:Economist Vol. 383; no. 8534; p. 68
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Economist Newspaper Limited 6/23/2007
Materias:
Computer hacking
United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation
National security
Computer security
Computer access control
Computer crimes
United States
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Sumario:The article reports on a new investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) designed to combat 'bot-nets,' networks strung together with hijacked computers used to steal data and send spam, causing disruptions in the Internet. The article reports that the FBI sees these bot-nets as a threat to national security, and that solving the problem of them is difficult because most people whose computers have been hacked into don't know it.