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Spanish police said the three were not computer experts but were "normal people who are earning a lot of money with cybercrime. Investigators said its infected computers were in half of the Fortune 1,000 companies and 40 major banks.

Spanish authorities said they still do not know the mastermind behind the botnet. They said the trio in custody bought the malicious programming to create the botnet and operate it on the Internet black market.

More arrests are expected in other countries. Mariposa had spread to 190 nations.

Botnets are temporary networks formed of computers that have been invaded with viruses, usually without the knowledge of the operator. They can be remotely controlled and used to send spam messages or troll for sensitive information that can be used for fraud.

Mariposa first appeared in December 2008. Investigation of it began in the spring of 2009. A Canadian firm, Defence Intelligence, noted infections on some client networks and then saw that controlling servers were located in Spain. That firm joined with researchers from the Georgia Tech Security Center and a Spanish security firm, Panda, to investigate.

Investigators were helped because the Mariposa controllers used Internet service providers who cooperated with authorities. Then, one man made direct connections from his own computer, enabling investigators to identify him.

Authorities said the perpetrators infected computers through malicious links on instant messaging services, through peer-to-peer networks and with removable storage devices.

It blamed two temporary networks -- botnets -- called Grum and Rustock. Grum now accounts for 26 percent of the world's spam, Symantec said, while Rustock also greatly expanded. Both were involved with pharmaceutical spam, which Symantec said now accounts for 65 percent of such junk mail worldwide.

The Waledac botnet surged in January, but in February Microsoft won a court order to take down many of its domain names and Symantec said that was an effective step in the battle against malicious programs.

FBI Director Robert Mueller told the RSA security conference terrorists have shown "a clear interest" in obtaining the skills to break into computers and networks. "They will either train their own recruits or hire outsiders, with an eye toward combining physical attacks with cyberattacks," he said.

He stressed that government alone cannot combat all the threats and urged companies to report attacks or attempts.

He said terrorists are using social networks to plot and plan attacks and are using the Internet to recruit, train and incite terrorists and for such instructional materials as bomb building.

It won a court order to shut down almost 300 Internet sites involved with Waledac, but conceded that effort still has not completely severed all links between the Waledac controlled and compromised computers. Still, Microsoft said the operation "shows it can be done" and "we have other operations on the board."

From a mere 5,000 tweets a day three years ago, Twitter has exploded -- to 50 million tweets a day. That's about 600 per second -- and Twitter strips out any spam tweets when figuring daily totals.

It's not clear how many users account for those messages. One study estimated Twitter users at 75 million, but found that a lot of accounts are inactive and in one month only 17 percent actually sent tweets.

The QualsysGuard Malware Detection searches the pages of customer sites looking for iFrames, JavaScript and other codes that might hide stealthy threats to visitors. It reports results to Web site owners.

A Google spinoff, Dasient, offers Web sites a free service that alerts them when they appear on malware blacklists. A paid service will detect and quarantine malicious material.

Only 15 percent of older adults get news by phone.

But a Pew Research survey also found that almost 60 percent get news from more than one source, both online and offline, and 46 percent say they utilize four to six types of media every day. And more than 80 percent said they get some news from e-mailed links.

What has not changed so much is news interest. Weather is still the top topic, with 73 percent of cell users checking those reports. Current events ranked second at 68 percent.

The bug in the VBScript element of Explorer could be used to inject malicious programming into a computer.

Microsoft said other Windows versions are not affected and it has seen no evidence of attacks exploiting the flaw. It is not easy to exploit -- a user has to be tricked into visiting a malicious Web site and then hitting the F1 key when prompted.

The total number of accounts compromised wasn't known, but a number of well-known figures had messages posted to their accounts with sexual messages and links to a Web site selling sexual performance drugs.

Some accounts apparently were invaded with a program looking for weak usernames and passwords, but others were hit through a message supposedly from an attractive young female which presented a fake Twitter log-in page to capture credentials.

Twitter posted a warning to users not to open messages purporting to be from young women.

The study for Global IP Solutions questioned 1,200 business professionals in the U.S. and Asia and found that in three-fourths of the nations, more than half had taken part in a video conference or chat. It showed 79 percent of the video conference users relied on consumer technology.

There were some concerns. Many users reported video delay and freezing as problems.

Medical identity theft is defined as some using stolen insurance information to buy medical services or goods. The cost is related to expenses of payments to restore insurance coverage or otherwise repair the damage.

The study of 156,000 individuals was sponsored by a unit of Experian, a credit monitoring firm.

It took a year or two for nearly half the victims to discover the problem and nearly half lost insurance coverage as a result.

Thirty-three percent of the cases involved use of medical information by a family member, without the knowledge of the primary holder. And 46 percent did not report thefts to law enforcement authorities.