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Death of computer network which sent out 18 per cent of world's spam

A collaborative effort has seen the shutdown of the third largest spam botnet in the world.

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Jul 19th 2012, 3:22 PM

Twitter files lawsuit against spammers

The social networking company said it is suing five persistent spambots in an attempt to crack down on the high volume of spam encountered by users.

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Apr 7th 2012, 7:45 AM