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Hackers Grapple With Rivals, FBI to Control Armies of Hijacked Computers – Bloomberg

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Just after 3 a.m. on May 26, Karim Hijazi, the chief executive of Unveillance , a cyber-security firm, received an e-mail from hackers calling themselves LulzSec. They demanded he help them take over some networks of hijacked computers that other criminals …
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Comcast tries pop-up alerts to warn of infections – PhysOrg

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(AP) — Comcast Corp. wants to enlist its customers in a fight against a huge problem for Internet providers – the armies of infected personal computers, known as “botnets,” that suck up bandwidth by sending spam and facilitating cybercrime. The …

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