Since I’ve been writing about botnets (here and here), I just had to mention that the FBI announced yesterday some arrests of botherders as part of “Operation Bot Roast” (what a great name, eh?). More coverage is available on ZDNet’s Government blog and also the Washington Post’s Security Fix blog. It’s interesting (but not surprising) to note that one of the three arrests is of Robert Soloway, the “spam king” currently in jail awaiting trial related to sending spam. The botnet saga continues…
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