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Creator of Nugache worm reaches plea agreement
The teenage creator of a botnet that used a clever worm to infect PCs and then steal users' personal data has agreed to a plea deal with federal prosecutors.
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In my opinion, this story is
In my opinion, this story is only significant because of Milmont's contribution to the botnet community with how his Nugache worm used peer-to-peer networking technology and fast flux in order to create a fully redundant, interconnected network to prevent his botnet from easily being shut down.The size of the Nugache botnet (about 15,000 computers) pales in comparison to some of the botnets that we are seeing today, but the work done by Milmont paved the way for worms like Storm which heavily relied on fast flux to stay alive.
I find it worthwhile to
I find it worthwhile to illustrate the dangers of P2P filesharing activities. The attitude of most of the young people I deal with at a university about filesharing is "who does it hurt" and this points the finger at them and their friends explicitly.