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According to this Ars Technica article, almost all Fortune 500 have been partially infected by the Zeus botnet, meaning that they have machines that are vulnerable to being controlled by criminals on their internal networks. This has fairly scary implications for corporations as it implies that they are vulnerable to industrial espionage and / or the theft of confidential client data.

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