Over the past week, researchers at Finnish security company F-secure have identified what they say is the first use of Storm's massive "botnet"--a collection of hundreds of thousands of computers hijacked with hidden software--to steal users' banking information.
The report said the blanket of heat-trapping gases has already raised ground temperatures by one-half degree Celsius (1.1 F) in the last 100 years, and scientists say the pace could quicken dramatically over the next 100 unless pollution is limited.