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Permanent link to archive for 4/6/07. Friday, April 6, 2007

Botnets

Good (and alarming) article by Nick Carr in the Guardian:

Is your personal computer a member of an international crime syndicate? Before you laugh, consider this: computer security experts believe that at least 10% of home PCs have been recruited into robot networks, or "botnets," under the control of criminals. Botnets are assembled through the distribution of a computer virus over the internet.

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Microsoft on the Charles

Just down the street from the old Lotus offices:

Microsoft has inked a deal that will give the software giant its first major presence in Cambridge as hiring by high-tech firms heats up.

The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant, which has recently acquired a number of [Massachusetts] companies, will lease 45,000 square feet of space in One Memorial Drive, a high-rise along the Charles River near MIT, state economic development officials confirmed.


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