Invasion of the Borg* (aka botnets)

Not surprisingly, there's yet a new cyber threat to worry about, a sort of surreptitious hi-jacking of personal computers to create mega-networks called 'botnets' that attack us with spam and create all sorts of other cyber mischief. As usual, the bad guys are several steps ahead of the good guys... While I personally have no idea how we might deal with this, I still believe we need to at least be aware of what's going on. Forewarned is forearmed and so forth. And knowledge presumably leads to informed decision-making. Hopefully, we can make personal, political and resource allocation decisions that reflect our priorities (yes, still a bit of idealism left in the old gal!).

And although not nearly sufficient to deal with this threat, click to link to a list of essential steps you need to take to try to protect yourself.

*For those who are not StarTrek fans, here's some info on the Borg reference.