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Reverend
August 3rd, 2007, 18:10 PM
As the Storm worm grows into a prolonged online siege 10 times larger than any other e-mail attack in the last two years -- amassing a botnet of nearly 2 million computers -- researchers worry about the damage hackers could wreak if they unleash a denial-of-service attack with it.

Between July 16 and Aug. 1, researchers at software security firm Postini have recorded 415 million spam e-mails l...

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