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Those Pirated Versions of Windows 7 RC Are Building a Botnet

10:01AM Jason Chen | The botnet just added 25,000 users in the last few weeks. Nice job, geniuses. Couldn’t you have downloaded it from Microsoft directly? [MSDN] More »
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Symantec Finds First Mac Botnet, Already Launching DDoS Attacks

10:57AM Jason Chen | The first Mac botnet is already launching DDoS attacks against some website, which penetrated Macs via tainted copies of iWork ‘09 and Photoshop CS4. Just like what we told you about in January. Be careful when you pirate stuff. [ZDNet via NYT] More »