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What The Heck Are Botnets?

Botnets are networks of computers that hackers have infected and grouped together under their control to propagate viruses, send illegal spam, and carry out attacks that cause web sites to crash.
What the Heck are Botnets?
What makes botnets exceedingly bad is the difficulty in tracing them back to their creators as well as the ever-increasing use [...]

Are you a Wi-Fi user? You should read this

How secure is your Wi-Fi connection? Do you have any security measures set up to protect your connection? If not, then right now, someone could be accessing it illegally to download porn, or to send out spam emails. Sure you have not let anyone touch your notebook, and you are very careful about your passwords [...]