Comments on: Zombie PCs being sent to steal IDs

Botnets, or networks of compromised PCs, are increasingly being used for identity theft and installing spyware, a new report says.

[hadaso]

In the future botnets would crack ciphers for organized crime

A big enough botnet would be able to use parallel computing to break encryption that is considered safe. Organized crime is experimenting now in what would let them in the future have supercomputers to be able to penetrate secure computer systems used by banks...

[John Kuzak]

parallel computing

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[Michael Grogan]

Spyware and adware....

....are easy to stop. Identity theft will remain a problem but spyware and adware are commercial endeavors. That means the companies served by the ads are paying to have the bot nets install them. These companies know who they are paying. We simply need to bring criminal charges against the companies first and they'll give up their subcontractors. Charging corporations with criminal misconduct...in the US...who am I kidding?