[pchelpers] News:BBC cybercrime probe backfires

Asher Moses
March 13, 2009 - 3:07PM

The BBC hacked into 22,000 computers as part of an investigation into
cybercrime but the move quickly backfired, with legal experts claiming
the broadcaster broke the law and security gurus saying the experiment
went too far.

The technology show Click acquired a network of 22,000 hijacked
computers - known as a botnet - and ordered the infected machines to
send out spam messages to test email addresses and attack a website,
with permission, by bombarding it with requests.

Click also modified the infected computers' desktop wallpaper.

More here:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/security/bbc-cybercrime-probe-backfires/2009/03/13/1236447465056.html
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