Submission + - Twitter used to control botnet machines (wired.com)
DikSeaCup writes: "Arbor Network's Jose Nazario, an expert on botnets, discovered what looks to be the first reported case of hackers using Twitter to control botnets. "Perhaps what's surprising then is that it's taken so long for hackers to take Twitter to the dark side." The next step, of course, is to code the tweets in such a way that they aren't so suspicious ..."
