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EU responds to threat of 'zombie computers'
The EU's anti-cyber-crime agency Enisa will in
future work with
Europol
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to help track down hackers and the creation of
botnets or "zombie computers" is to be made illegal under new proposals
from the European Commission. "I don't want you to walk out of here totally terrified, but just to
give you an idea that there is a threat," home affairs commissioner
Cecila Malmstrom said at a press briefing...
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The EU's anti-cyber-crime agency Enisa will in future work with Europol to help track down hackers and the creation of botnets or "zombie computers" is to be made illegal under new proposals from the European Commission. "I don't want you to walk out of here totally terrified, but just to give you an idea that there is a threat," home affairs commissioner Cecila Malmstrom said at a press briefing to launch the measures in the EU capital, Brussels, on Thursday 30 October.
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