Botnet Stories for 2011

Microsoft Drops Suit Against Firm In Botnet Case 49
Most Sophisticated Rootkit Getting an Overhaul 104
Hackers Buying IPv4 Blocks To Evade Detection 89
The Inside Story of the Kelihos Takedown 83
Microsoft Disables Kelihos Botnet 94
SpyEye Botnet Nets Fraudster $3.2M In Six Months 99
Microsoft Offers $250,000 Reward For Botnet Info 99
Spammers Prefer Compromised Accounts To Botnets 53
Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible 245
Massive Botnet "Indestructible," Say Researchers 583
Multiplatform Java Botnet Spotted In the Wild 203
Feds To Remotely Uninstall Bot From Some PCs 211
DOJ Gets Court Permission To Attack Botnet 84
Spam Drops 1/3 After Rustock Botnet Gets Crushed 199
Microsoft Conducts Massive Botnet Takedown Action 302
The Life of a Cybercrime Investigator 79
Years-Old Conficker Worm Still a Threat 71
Hackers Increasingly Using Twitter For Botnets 56
Hackers Bringing Telnet Back 238
Storm Botnet Returns As Part of New Year's Attacks 66

I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"