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Cyber criminals are increasingly employing so-called "bots" - computer programs that secretly take control of another person's computer to launder money and get around a U.S. law that makes it illegal for banks to knowingly process transactions tied to online gaming sites, security experts say. As of June 30, bots had found their way onto roughly 5 million computers, up 7 percent for the year, said Zulfikar Ramzan, a senior principal security researcher at Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec, which provides anti-virus and other computer security-related software. These bots are used to flood online poker rooms and other Internet gambling operations to...