A 20-year-old who prosecutors say highjacked computers to damage computer networks and send waves of spam across the Internet was sentenced on Monday to nearly five years in prison. Jeanson James ...
A 20-year-old accused of using hundreds of thousands of hijacked computers, or "bot nets," to damage systems and send massive waves of spam across the Internet, pleaded guilty to federal charges on ...
Researchers at Cisco recently got a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the botnet underworld after going undercover and meeting an actual botmaster online: the botmaster, who ran a botnet that had ...
A 20-year-old who prosecutors say hijacked computers to damage computer networks and send waves of spam across the Internet was sentenced on Monday to nearly five years in prison. Jeanson James ...
US authorities have arrested a man for allegedly hijacking thousands of computers to launch spam attacks in what officials say is the first prosecution of its kind. Among the computers that Jeanson ...
Just when you thought you had that spam under control: There's a new, inexpensive software package out that helps spammers send out their messages -- and frequently, malware -- at record speeds.