Storm Worm botnet could be world’s most powerful supercomputer

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http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=493&tag=nl.e540

"By New Zealand computer scientist Peter Gutman’s calculations, the Storm Worm botnet “may be the first time that a top 10 supercomputer has been controlled not by a government or mega-corporation but by criminals.”

The question remains, now that they have the world’s most powerful supercomputer system at their disposal, what are they going to do with it?"

I know of one thing they are up to: attacking anti-spam websites:
http://www.castlecops.com/f285-DDoS.html
No doubt there are many more harmful “purposes” for that botnet.

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That is exactly issue I have been talking about in my postings.
its the 21st century, The Firepower is the CPU power, not the tanks and soldiers. And this CPU power is up for grabs! Someone needs to protect it!

Yep… Comodo!

Melih