Get out the big microphone - what we've been saying all along about the growing bot problem finally hit the NY Times. John Markoff investigated the article which includes quotes from Dave Rand, David Dagon, Gadi Evron, K.C. Claffy, the ShadowServer folks and others.

The article quotes some good ballpark numbers on the threat:

• 11% of the 650 million computers on-line contain botnet code
• 250,00 new systems get botted every day
• 80% of all spam originates from botnets now
  
• We passed the billion spam a day by a single ISP point back in December

Anyway, it's a thoughtful read that brings some badly needed attention to the size of the problem.

Plus you can check out our spooky picture in the paper too in case the facts themselves don't scare you enough.

Adam