I See Your Password

Earlier this week, Ars Technica did a story on a group of researchers in the computer science department at the University of California Santa Barbara. These researchers conducted a study on a botnet named Torpig after they successfully hijacked the botnet for ten days. What they discovered was not only mind boggling, but down right scary.

In case you didn't know, a botnet is essentially a network of computers on the internet that are all infected with the same virus (or malware). This 'network' periodically contacts special servers and delivers information or receives instructions from the 'bad guys'.

Torpig is an especially nasty botnet that over the years has been responsible for stealing more than a half-million online bank account details and was referred to by BBC News as "one of the most advanced pieces of crimeware ever created".

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