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Warning: The Internet May Go Down Today

By mjdarlington / July 9, 2012 / Crime / Leave a comment

About 250,000 computer users worldwide are at risk of losing internet access today because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last year.

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