Security researcher Peter Gutmann gave a dim overview of the types of sophisticated software now used to take over computers to conduct cybercrime. Gutmann said spam and malicious code are becoming more sophisticated, because businesses proliferating such threats are hiring professionalsfrom programmers to psychologists. Most spam services are hosted in China, where the ISPs dont care about it and bandwidth is cheap, he said. Botnets are now more resilient and decentralized, with the emergence of P2P botnets making them more resilient.”]
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