Once security companies were able to identify the control servers for the attack, they could identify and block the attack, and the zombies went quiet.

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After the attack on the World Trade Center, a block from AmEx headquarters, the plan was scrapped.

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The messages suggest that the attack was organised to protest against efforts to block access to The Pirate Bay's (TPB) file-sharing pages.

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Each attack or block also builds the power meter, which has three primary uses.

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The children had lived a block from the location of the attack, and were being driven to school by their father that morning.

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But the IRS' attack on split-dollar insurance came months after key congressmen had moved to block the ploy.

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Internet security firm Mandiant, which was hired by the Times to trace the attack, followed the hackers' movements for four months, to try to establish a pattern and block them.

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When Boros creatures attack together, an opponent will be unable or unwilling to block the enhanced lines of the legion.

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