Obama Administration proposes giving courts more power to issue botnet injunctions, a measure necessary to fight the diffusion of malicious infrastructures. Amendment would permit the department to seek an injunction to prevent ongoing hacking violations in cases where 100 or more victim computers have been hacked. Current law only permits courts to consider injunctions for limited crimes, including certain frauds and illegal wiretapping, says Leslie R. Caldwell, assistant attorney general in the criminal division at the Department of Justice, in a blog post.”]
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