Chalk up a big win for the white hats in the ongoing cyberwar against the evil spammers. Good guys take down notorious Rustock spamming botnet Rustock, one of the largest and most notorious spam botnets, suddenly fell silent Wednesday and has remained off line. The takedown of Rustock’s 26 command-and-control servers appears to be the [...]
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