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FTC smackdown! More fake support scammers taken out…

The FTC has taken out more fake support scammers who are said to have badgered consumers into parting with more than $ 120 million. In return, the consumers received technical smoke and mirrors that was worth absolutely nothing.
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Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken ‘Off the Table’ in Cyber-Warfare – Nextgov

Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken 'Off the Table' in CyberWarfare
Nextgov
He called the 2012 cyber-attack on Saudi Arabia's national oil company Aramco a "scare." While the hackers failed to affect the company's core production processes, the attack played out dangerously close to the intersection of routine business systems
Q&A: Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken 'Off the Table' in CyberWarfareNational Journal

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Q&A: Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken ‘Off the Table’ in Cyber-Warfare – National Journal

Q&A: Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken 'Off the Table' in CyberWarfare
National Journal
An employee looks at computer screens in the fourth reactor of the Kalinin Nuclear Power Plant in Udomlya, Russia, some 200 miles outside Moscow, in March 2011. Experts fear that atomic facilities could become targets of cyber-attacks, with potentially …
Expert Wants Nuclear Plants Taken 'Off the Table' in CyberWarfare // May 30 Nextgov

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Global spam botnet taken down – United Press International

MILPITAS, Calif., July 19 (UPI) — Internet security experts say what is claimed to be the world’s third-largest spam-generating botnet pushing fake prescription drugs has been shut down. The botnet known as Grum controlled at least 100,000 PCs …
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