Half of all botnets hosted in just 50 servers

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Researchers tracked the origin of 109 billion spam email - as most spam is sent from infected machines

Fifty internet service providers are home to half of all botnets, according to new research published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Researchers at the Univ...

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