A software program named Conficker easily gained global attention as it quickly infected millions of computers with a program designed to link together all the infected machines into a powerful “being” called a botnet. This plague, if you will, has brought together some of the world’s best computer security experts to form the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, they refer to themselves as the Conficker Cabal. Microsoft has even offered a reward of $250,000 for any information aiding the capture of the author of Conficker. As of now, the team of experts have not yet been able to find out the location of the author(s) or whether it is being run by one individual or a group of hackers.

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