Microsoft Raids Tackle Internet Crime

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Microsoft employees, accompanied by United States marshals, raided two nondescript office buildings in Pennsylvania and Illinois on Friday, aiming to disrupt one of the most pernicious forms of online crime today — botnets, or groups of computers that help harvest bank account passwords and other personal information from millions of other computers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/26/technology/microsoft-raids-tackle-online-crime.html
 
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