Original Article - New Scientist Tech - November 2006

Computer security experts are struggling to cope with a new type of spam sweeping the internet. The emails can bypass conventional spam filters because they contain images of messages rather than actual words and sentences.

Original Article - New Scientist Tech - February 2007

The worst attack on the internet's infrastructure in years slowed traffic using infected "zombies" computers on Tuesday.

The attack involved deluging the internet's central domain name system (DNS) servers with meaningless traffic in an effort to render them inaccessible or cause them to crash.