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FBI Cutting Off Web To Cut Out Virus

  • CBC News, Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:09 AM

The Web is increasingly the center of communication, commerce and content. It’s all the more disturbing, then, that the medium can also be a very dangerous place for consumers. On July 9, hundreds of thousands of people worldwide could reportedly lose Internet access after the FBI shuts down temporary DNS servers used to assist victims of a massive internet fraud ring. As Canada’s CBC News reports, the shutdown by U.S. authorities is the last stage in Operation Ghost Click -- a two-year international investigation that officially late last year.
 

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