A telescope that sets its sights on cyber-crime
February 5, 2010 | Source: New Scientist Tech
Endgame Systems of Atlanta has come up with a system called the Internet telescope that can map the physical location of computers infected with malicious software, or malware, used to run botnets (thousands of computers taken over to run malware). It can even identify the type of malware on the machine and preempt its next moves.