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Under the US federal wiretap statute, John Schiefer has been charged with conducting illegal botnet activities. eWeek reports that Schiefer has pleaded guilty to four felony counts, namely accessing protected computers to conduct fraud, disclosing illegally intercepted electronic communications, wire fraud, and bank fraud.
Schiefer and his gang reportedly infected almost 250,000 vulerable computers to create [...]
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