Global effort stops half the world's spam
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An international effort by spam fighters has taken down the infamous Grum botnet, slashing in half the worldwide amount of spam email. Grum's last servers were taken offline in Russia on Wednesday, effectively killing the botnet that has no fallback mechanism, said Atif Mushtaq, a researcher at FireEye's security lab, which collaborated with the Russian Computer Security Incident Response Team and the Spamhouse Project in battling Grum.
The only Spam I like: Monthy Python's Spam
------------------------------ Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night. War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
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An international effort by spam fighters has taken down the infamous Grum botnet, slashing in half the worldwide amount of spam email. Grum's last servers were taken offline in Russia on Wednesday, effectively killing the botnet that has no fallback mechanism, said Atif Mushtaq, a researcher at FireEye's security lab, which collaborated with the Russian Computer Security Incident Response Team and the Spamhouse Project in battling Grum.
The only Spam I like: Monthy Python's Spam
------------------------------ Author of Primary ROleplaying SysTem How do I take my coffee? Black as midnight on a moonless night. War doesn't determine who's right. War determines who's left.
What? My inbox will be very lonely now. :laugh:
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