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Grum Spambot Shut Down: Massive Botnet Created 18 Percent Of World's Spam Email

Grum Spambot Shut Down: Massive Botnet Created 18 Percent Of World's Spam Email

The Grum botnet, which experts believe is responsible for about 18 percent of the world's spam email traffic, has been shut down, according to security company FireEye, based in Milpitas, Calif. According to M86Security, Grum was responsible for roughly 17.4 percent of the worldwide spam email traffic, which made it officially the third largest active botnet in the world, after Cutwail and Lethic, respectively. In January 2012, however, Grum became the No. 1 spam botnet in the world, accounti...
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'Game of Thrones' Season 3 Cast Confirmed At Comic-Con 2012 [VIDEO]

One of the biggest television shows of the past few years, HBO's megahit fantasy series Game of Thrones set records with its season 2 finale. Now, the show has taken over Comic-Con 2012, with the Game of Thrones season 3 panel on Friday making announcements right and left about casting for the next season.
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Libor Scandal: Barclays Boss Diamond Gives Up $31M Bonus

Ex-Barclays boss Bob Diamond, who will still receive his salary and benefits worth in excess of £2 million, had given up the bonus payment voluntarily according to Barclays executive chairman Marcus Agius.
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New War Games And Old Peace Talks In Syria: Is There An End In Sight?

The sand is running out of the hourglass for the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday. Her words speak to the recent intensification of the standoff between Western powers and the Syrian regime.
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Internet Doomsday Virus Could Black Out 250,000 PCs

About a quarter-million computer users around the world are at risk of losing Internet access on Monday because of malicious software at the heart of a hacking scam that U.S. authorities shut down last November. Some blogs and news reports hyped the risk of an outage, warning of a potential blackout and describing the Alureon malware as the Internet Doomsday virus.
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Airlines Report June Rise In Passenger Traffic

Some airline companies appear to be faring much better in gaining passenger traffic thanks to a soaring demand for air travel and limited carrier choices -- a trend that has given U.S. airlines wide leeway to maintain overcrowded planes and shoddy customer service.
Anderson Cooper

We're Here, We're Queer -- We're Misrepresented

What Cooper did in public should definitely not be called a coming out. It was a dragging out of a perfectly secure gay man -- a throwing of a Christian to the media lions.
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Quail Fire: More Evacuations Lifted In Alpine Area

Evacuations have been lifted in the Alpine Cove subdivision and another 160 Alpine residents will be allowed to return to their homes on Thursday, after a change in weather conditions have helped contain the Quail Fire, the Salt lake Tribune reported.
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At Least 900,000 U.S. Homes, Businesses Still Without Power

Not only will hundreds of thousands of people in the eastern portion of the United States be enjoying (or not) their Independence Day holiday without power, many of them will also be sweating it out through the weekend.
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No Power For More Than A Million Americans On Fourth Of July

Hundreds of thousands of people from the Midwest to the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. will spend the Fourth of July without power, as utilities still struggle to restore power after violent storms last Friday.
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3-Year-Old Eats Grandmother's Pot-Laced Chocolate Chip Cookies

Who stole the pot-laced cookies from the cookie jar? A three-year-old Southern California boy was rushed to the hospital when his family realized he had gotten into a family member's secret stash of chocolate-chip pot-laced cookies a day earlier.

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