A 20-year-old who prosecutors say highjacked computers to damage computer networks and send waves of spam across the Internet was sentenced on Monday to nearly five years in prison. Jeanson James ...

A 20-year-old accused of using hundreds of thousands of hijacked computers, or "bot nets," to damage systems and send massive waves of spam across the Internet, pleaded guilty to federal charges on ...

A 20-year-old who prosecutors say hijacked computers to damage computer networks and send waves of spam across the Internet was sentenced on Monday to nearly five years in prison. Subscribe to read ...

Previous stories in my Pharma Wars series have identified top kingpins behind the some of the biggest spam botnets. Today’s post does that and more, including never-before-published information on ...

Researchers at Cisco recently got a rare glimpse of the inner workings of the botnet underworld after going undercover and meeting an actual botmaster online: the botmaster, who ran a botnet that had ...

Jeanson James Ancheta, who used a network of zombie computers to rake in tens of thousands of dollars and buy himself a BMW, was sentenced to almost five years in federal prison on Monday. Ancheta, of ...

Opera has added a lot of cool new features to its upcoming Opera 10 browser, and one of them is almost sure to catch the eye of cyber criminals. It’s called Opera Unite, and while Opera promotes it as ...

No doubt 2010 will go down as the year of the botnet takedown as yet another botnet met its demise this week: Dutch authorities announced that they have struck down the Bredolab botnet and arrested ...

One of the men authorities allege to have been behind the massive–and now dead–Mariposa botnet, has gone on trial in Slovenia, more than two years after the initial arrests and takedown of the network ...