Is every computer in the world compromised? They’re all owned out of the Netherlands according to the Sydney Morning Herald!
From a long story about lots of things from the SMH.
“In Australia one zombie army was found to have 400,000 computers under its power while in the Netherlands another was in control of 1 billion computers putting millions of personal details into the wrong hands. ”
That is a lot of computers to manage and control. We’re in big trouble. 
Related story on number of computers: http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?NewsID=9119
December 18th, 2007 at 12:58 pm
Billion my ass. Mis-print. Tee hee fun though. IPv4 address space and all that! I am more worried about 3G/WiMax mobile devices in the future on v6. There is a real army worth talking about.
http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/
D2
December 18th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
That is one interesting field. We’ve been doing a bit of work in this space and it’s a sure thing that organisations, even those delivering the technologies are far from prepared. It’s still very much an unknown relative to the “traditional” stuff.
We’re also actually in the process of potentially partnering up with a couple of universities here in Australia under a government grant program (if it comes off) to dedicate some fulltime research into this field, mobile tech/business etc and security implications.
Mis-print….yeah you hope but it’s been up for a few days now.
December 20th, 2007 at 5:10 am
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