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Botnet master sentenced to jail

A hacker who went by the alias “acidstorm” was sentenced to a prison term of four years in a Los Angeles federal court on Wednesday. John Schiefer, 27, had been charged under the Federal Wiretap Act and pleaded guilty last April to accessing hundreds of thousands of computers to set up botnets and fraudulently invade thousands of bank accounts. — CAM

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Security concerns curb open source utilization

Open source software utilization has been scaled back by nearly 40% of industry professionals due to security concerns, with more than 50% reducing open source usage following the emergence of the widespread Log4j vulnerability, The Register reports.

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