Researchers Try to Stalk Botnets Used by Hackers
"Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, Calif., are creating what is in effect a vast digital petri dish able to hold one million operating systems at once in an effort to study the behavior of rogue programs known as botnets."
- http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28comp.html?_r=1
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