Hacking used to be quite taboo on the internet but with some of the greatest minds at work on the wrong side of internet law, the battle rages. People have experienced quite a drop in spamming or junk mail but with respect to other threats that comes to our internet doors, the figures just keep growing. Malware, viruses, Trojans and worms continue to plague the places we go to on the net and nothing seems to be safe, even the social web is subject to hacking as many of us know. From elaborate programs that takes your private information for use later to more destructive ones that denies you access to your favorite sites, along with millions of other users who are denied access, left high and dry with servers choked of messages leaving them quite baffled.
Botnets are however the most difficult to stop and in today’s intrusion prevention systems, it still remains quite a real and present threat. A recent case of one hacker manager who allowed his botnet to be used ofr the spread of malware and spam, being convicted may seem like a milestone but for every one caught, thousands get away with their crimes. Even organized crime has taken interest in the use of botnets for they use them to spread spam that till recently filled our mailboxes with email for cialis and other illegal drugs. The fact of the matter was that the drugs may not be all that bad but the reality that they are more likely fakes than originals raises the health risks to unprecedented heights.