Bot army being assembled and awaiting orders

An enormous army of infected computers is being assembled, but it’s unclear yet what purpose they will be put to. Wave after wave of malicious email attachments has been sent out since August, and with average success rates for such mailings, millions of machines could be compromised, says internet security…

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Germany Orders Agencies to Shut Down Facebook Pages

German data watchdogs ordered federal agencies to shut down their Facebook pages and remove “like” buttons from their Web sites, suggesting that anyone who uses Facebook will have their online activity tracked. “All institutions in the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany [must] shut down their fan pages on Facebook and…

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