Related incident: Botmaster gets 57 months in prison

Ancheta was accused in the original 17-count indictment of hijacking some 500,000 computers using "bots," or programs that surreptitiously install themselves on computers so they can be controlled by a hacker.
Hopefully the more these people get caught, having to pay restitution and jail time will actually make some people think before trying something like this.

IMO, the number of PC hijacked shows that most people still refuse to take security and ensuring their PCs are up-to-date seriously. It's a little scary to me that both of these cases involved the military and makes me wonder how "open" their systems really are to the world.