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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Webageddon In July?

Ken O’Brien

Four million internet users worldwide face a total internet blackout from July 9, thanks to a malicious piece of software that infected their computers without their knowledge

Hackers infected a network of computers worldwide. They took advantage of vulnerabilities in the Microsoft Windows operating system to install malicious software on the victim computers. This turned off antivirus updates and changed the way the computers reconcile website addresses behind the scenes on the Internet's domain name system.