Funmurphys: the Blog

The Zombies Are Coming!

I couldn't resist the headline: FBI arrest Zombie pusher. 3 quick guesses as to what they mean - by zombie pusher - if the first two have to do with people turned into "zombies" like in The Serpent and the Rainbow or drug dealers, you still have one left. Actually it's a good news/bad news kind of thing. The FBI arrested and charged one Jeanson James Ancheta for taking over computers and forming a "zombie network" that he used to install adware and send spam. He may have made roughly $60,000 but made the mistake of taking over Defense Department computers. So now he faces up to 50 years in jail (hanging's too good). That's the good news. The bad news is that "'Zombie botnets are a growing security problem". That sure doesn't sound good. So can we go to Internet 2.0 with security designed in from the start? Please?