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Google Blogger "Hosts 2% of World's Malware"

Barence writes "Google's Blogger service is responsible for 2% of the world's malware hosted on the Web, according to a new report from security firm Sophos. The company claims hackers are setting up pages on the free blogging service to host malicious... ...full story at slashdot

from slashdot on Wed, Jul 23 2008

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