"IT-kangelased" Eestist

[kaur3]

Last November the FBI led an international raid to shut down the malware operation. Seven men have been charged, six captured, and so far one extradited from Estonia last month. The trouble is that the gumshoes could not simply turn off the malicious domain name system (DNS) servers, which translate intelligible website addresses like economist.com into numerical ones like 64.14.173.202. This would have meant that any computer which the malware routed through the subverted DNS server would find its connection severed. 

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March 8th proved too optimistic, however. As many as 500,000 machines in America and five times as many elsewhere remained affected by the end of February. The FBI managed to wangle an extension until July 9th. On that day, though, the plug will be pulled. An international industry consortium, the DNS Changer Working Group, has strived to inform as many users as possible.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/babbage/ ... e?fsrc=rss

[mutionu]

Rove Digital & Co. Sellest kodumaises ajakirjanduses palju juttu olnud. Müstika on see, et nad nii kaua tegutseda said kuigi pahavara peale vist alles mitte niiväga ammu läksid.