Botnets are dangerous.  Not only can botnet administrators steal your personal information, but often, on a whim, they can also simply kill your PC.
The controllers of the Zeus/Zbot botnet did just that, hitting the kill switch and BSODing about 100,000 infected PCs.
The Zeus/Zbot botnet first popped up back in March.  It swipes your financial and [...]

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So how safe are you really when it comes to doing things online?  As it turns out, not very.
Researchers from the University of California Santa Barbara have published a paper outlining how they managed to hijack a botnet earlier this year for about 10 days.
In that time, the good guys were able to snag about [...]

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