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New P2P botnet infects SSH servers all over the world

Cartoon image of a desktop computer under attack from viruses.

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Researchers have found what they believe is a previously undiscovered botnet that uses unusually advanced measures to covertly target millions of servers around the world.

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The Golden Age of computer user groups

Programmer power, indeed. (Here's a Tufts computer group sometime in the mid to late 1970. Getty caption explicitly states, "Note equipment and 1970s fashions.")

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Apple threatens to boot Epic—including Unreal Engine—off Mac and iOS

<img src="https://www.inter-tuning.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/apple-threatens-to-boot-epic-including-unreal-engine-off-mac-and-ios.jpg" alt="A Fortnite loading screen displayed on an iPhone in 2018, when Apple and Epic weren’t at each other’s legal throats.”>

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