Zombie Computers Try To Blend In With The Crowd

Good article on how hackers use zombie computers to send spam, install spyware, and initiate denial of service attacks for the purposes of extortion. Looks like various companies and Government agencies are defeating the ways hackers communicate with their zombie computers. The problem is that the hackers find better ways to communicate to blend in with the internet crowd.

I keep wondering if any of my computers are a zombie computer. As sophisticated as hackers are getting, I may never know.

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