Dutch police say they have disrupted a massive botnet consisting of 17 million infected computers, smartphones, and tablets.

The ghosts and ghouls of October have come and gone, but the dangers lurking behind virtual walls have hardly disappeared. The threat of zombie bots is real, and it exists 365 days out of the year.

A variety of old, abandoned projects, long considered dead, continue to rise up and undermine the cybersecurity posture of the companies that created them. The lack of attention to forgotten — dare we ...