December 17, 2009, 9:57AM
Botnets Targeting Full Spectrum of Servers
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Web servers, FTP servers, and even SSL servers
are becoming prime targets for botnet operators, not as command and
control servers or as pure zombies, but more as a place to host their
malicious code and files, or in some cases to execute high-powered spam
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