The authorities closed in on Mr Avanesov after they took and dismantled the network of computers he controlled.
They first appeared in 2009 and are closely linked to the global network of computers which supports the currency and its users.
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Bitcoins first appeared in 2009 and are closely linked to the global network of computers that supports the currency and its users.
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Bitcoins, and the global network of computers that supports them, first appeared in 2009 and since then it has become a very widely used alternative payments system.
These findings have now been complemented by Dr Knight's project, which made use of climateprediction.net, a network of personal computers on which processing time is volunteered by members of the public, to compile 57, 000 different runs of a global-climate model developed at the Hadley Centre.
Now that planet-wide network of interlinked computers became a court of the people - virtual Athenian democracy.
That data can then be amplified by 1, 000 or if those original enquiries are made through a botnet, or network of infected computers.
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The pair checked NASD regulations and discovered that there were no rules preventing this, so they created software and a network of personal computers that would simulate a giant electronic limit order book.
Botnet attackers commandeer personal computers as part of a large network of "zombie" computers that, on command, target companies for spam attacks to cripple IT capabilities.
The Internet is now an interconnected, global network of things: computers, devices, sensors, applications, etc.
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As a virtual currency, bitcoins depend on a wide network of closely connected computers to log who holds the coins and where they are spent.
Ethernet is a democratic type of network: computers communicate peer to peer with no central control, and the technical standard became open, managed by the IEEE.
Home to two of the most innovative labs and research in the high-tech industry, Intel and McAfee will also jointly explore future product concepts to further strengthen security in the cloud network and myriad of computers and devices people use in their everyday lives.
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Network managers attribute some of the network rage to a lack of basic knowledge about computers.
Servers are powerful computers that usually sit in the middle of a network, handling and coordinating data from a number of desktop computers.
Earlier this year a Chinese student in Japan was arrested for using a network of remote-controlled computers to steal virtual items in an online game called Lineage II and sell them to other players.
In one, the Californian city of Santa Barbara set up a city-wide peer-to-peer network (in which the computers of different practices and clinics can talk directly to one another).
The Net has long been a network of networks, linking desktop computers, servers and mainframes.
Individual transactions are encrypted, logged by a decentralized network running on thousands of home computers, and recorded in a public ledger.
In addition, Fiorina is expanding an existing relationship with the DreamWorks SKG to include remote collaboration for geographically dispersed animation teams, and provide access to a secure, high-speed network of HP's own computers to handle overflow rendering of highly detailed images.
SpyEye's controllers are believed to have built up a huge network, or botnet, of compromised computers they regularly ransacked for information.
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QNAP's new TS-x12 models are easy to attach to existing networks and provides easy file sharing within the network, centralized backup of all networked computers, website hosting, printer sharing, even recording of surveillance video from IP cameras.
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Over the last 20 years, Cisco has come to dominate the business of routers and switches--the specialized computers that shuttle packets of data around a network, and form the backbone of the Internet--and about two thirds of its revenue comes from sales of those devices.
This is a real product, HomeCloud DHM (a consumer network appliance that facilitates sharing and synchronization of data among home devices such as computers, phones, tablets, network-compatible TVs, etc.) and WSTL should begin earning real money in mid-2011.
Widespread private ownership of cheap computers and the network to allow them to communicate with each other would come much later.
It also searches mapped network drives and other networked computers for installations of Windows.
Investigators from Europol's European Cybercrime Centre - which launched last month - said the network had infected "tens of thousands" of computers worldwide.
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All told, Kaspersky Lab said that a total of 30, 749, 066 vulnerable programs and files were detected on computers using the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), with an average of 8 different vulnerabilities detected on each affected computer.
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In particular, they will let software programs run on all manner of machines, from almost-dumb network computers to powerful servers.
Behind security and a roaring air conditioner, 150 computer network switches go through their mock paces with thousands of computers: Each switch moves 2.5 trillion bits a second.
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