| Botnet Armies on the March
The age of cyber-warfare has arrived. On Thursday, the FBI said it had uncovered a million compromised computers and had secured two convictions and three new indictments in the second phase of its Bot Roast investigation first disclosed in June. The No. 2 forecast in a new report on 2008 security trends by anti-virus company McAfee holds that the success of the “Storm Worm," also known as Nuwar, in amassing the “largest-ever" botnet army through a peer-to-peer network will spawn imitators. In May, a botnet army—believed to originate in Russia—mounted a denial-of-service attack against Estonia that overwhelmed that country's computer infrastructure. As bot armies—once the stuff of science fiction novels such as William Gibson's “Neuromancer"—proliferate, startups with new approaches to defense have begun to appear.
Austria OKs terror snooping Trojan plan
Austria has become one of the first countries to officially sanction the use of Trojan Horse malware as a tactic for monitoring the PCs of suspected terrorists and criminals. The measures were reportedly discussed in an Austrian cabinet meeting last week and turned over to a group of legal and technical experts to thrash out the details of the scheme. Pending approval, Austrian law enforcement officers could begin using the tactic as early as next year. .
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Grulkowski was previously arrested on operating while intoxicated charges in April 1990, June 1992, July 1993, June 1995, November 1998, December 1998, September 2001 and September 2002, according to court records. The first arrest was in Shawano County and the others have been in Marathon County. Grulkowski faces a 10-year prison sentence on the OWI charge, including enhancers for being a repeat offender. He also could have his driver's license revoked for an additional 24 to 36 months. A bill in the state Legislature would increase the potential jail time for an eighth OWI conviction from six years to 10 years.
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