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mariposa arrests

From: Russell Fulton <r.fulton () AUCKLAND AC NZ>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 09:00:14 +1300

two articles about the supposed take down of the mariposa bot net:

http://arstechnica.com/security/news/2010/03/spanish-arrests-mark-the-end-of-dangerous-botnet.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_TEC_BOTNET_BUSTED?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-03-02-14-26-32

These say the bot net was taken down a couple of months ago.

I am sceptical as I am still seen responses from their servers and new servers popping up....

Russell Fulton

Information Security Officer, The University of Auckland
New Zealand

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