July 25, 2005

You Can Run and You Can Still Hide

Virus Bounties No Longer Effective

Symantec experts believe that paying bounties to track down and prosecute writers of computer worms no longer works, blaming the shift on the changing hacking landscape. Worms and viruses are increasingly used for identity theft or to create zombie PCs used to launch distributed denial of service attacks or send spam. [via TechNewsWorld]