Saturday, April 21, 2012

Hundreds of thousands may lose access to the internet by July as a result of hackers' advertising scam | Mail Online

Hundreds of thousands may lose access to the internet by July as a result of hackers' advertising scam | Mail Online: "Hundreds of thousands of people could lose access to the internet by July following a hackers' scam - and they don't even know it.

Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world.

In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected users. But that system is to be shut down."

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