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New Botnet Dwarfs Storm 607

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday April 07, 2008 @10:30AM from the that's-a-lotta-zombies dept.

ancientribe writes "Storm is no longer the world's largest botnet: Researchers at Damballa have discovered Kraken, a botnet of 400,000 zombies — twice the size of Storm. But even more disturbing is that it has infected machines at 50 of the Fortune 500, and is undetectable in over 80 percent of machines running antivirus software. Kraken appears to be evading detection by a combination of clever obfuscation techniques that hinder its detection and analysis by researchers."

Comment Re:He's not dead you earthing fools (Score 2, Informative) 538

by RamblinLonghorn on Tuesday March 18, 2008 @07:50PM (#22790002) Attached to: Arthur C. Clarke Is Dead At 90

He was cleared of those charges

Submission + - Microsoft extends 360 warranty to 3 years (gamasutra.com)

Submitted by

RamblinLonghorn

on Thursday July 05, 2007 @05:18PM

RamblinLonghorn writes: "Microsoft announces that they are extending the warranty of all Xbox 360's to 3 years. This appears to be entirely retroactive and that "those who have already paid for such repair charges can expect reimbursement checks for the amount of their console repair." It seems as though Microsoft is accepting the blame for the hardware malfunctions, but it is worth noting that this warranty modification only applies in the "Red Rings of Death" situation."

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