Teenage hacker arrested in New Zealand is part of ongoing battle against bot herders. Bot herders can control hundreds of thousands of PCs around the world. Hackers can do so for the purposes of spamming, identity theft, installing adware, and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. At the same time as news broke of the Kiwi arrest, the FBI announced the results of the latest read more in this article on the Naked Security website. Follow Graham Cluley on Twitter to read more of the exclusive content we post.”]
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