Achilles heel of HIV found

"HOUSTON: Scientists in the United States believe they have uncovered the Achilles heel in the armour of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), a development that may be useful in the treatment and prevention of the infection that continues to kill millions around the world. ...

Virus Alert: You Tube Email virus

Hackers "Storm Botnet" are up to no good."San Francisco - A new email urging recipients to watch a video of themselves on YouTube actually directs them to a fake site that infects their computers and turns them into...

More California E-Voting Reports Released; More Bad News

"Yesterday the California Secretary of State released the reports of three source code study teams that analyzed the source code of e-voting systems from Diebold, Hart InterCivic, and Sequoia.    * Diebold systems    * Hart InterCivic...

Your media player could be a hacker's playground

The artical says it all, hackers keep knocking down our doors."Your media player could be a hacker's playground JORDAN ROBERTSON Associated Press August 2, 2007 at 9:24 PM EDT LAS VEGAS — Media players in personal...

Hackers Can Now Deliver Viruses via Web Ads

Not that this is new news, but it is a reminder that without adequate PC protections, i.e., anti-virus, firewall, spyware blockers and removal, as well as education on the problem of malwares and cyber attacks any...

Captain America? Try Captain Insulin.

"Diabetic teen and brother create comic book Updated Sun. May. 27 2007 11:32 AM ET Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- The evil Dr. Diabetes leaps from a hospital window, crashing through the glass, determined to...

Trojan Horse Uses Virginia Tragedy as Bait

"Spammers and hackers are using the slayings at Virginia Tech as a gory lure to infect computers with malicious software, security experts noted Thursday. While the video made by gunman Cho Seung-hui prior to the...

Disinformation is Dangerous – and often Deadly

Al Gore, Nicholas Stern, the UN and AP mislead us about malaria and climate changePaul Reiter, a public health expert and professor of entomology and tropical disease at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. Report:...

Tick, Tick, Tick, - Indo H5N1 Death Toll To 74 :: Oblate Spheroid

"Last month, Indonesia had five deaths tied directly to the Avian bird flu virus (H5N1). This makes this country the deadliest of all countries with deaths from the transference of the flu disease from birds. It is...

Linux Malware for iPods: Proof of Concept Proven

Where there's a will, there's a way... to spread a virus. In this case, a virus that targets Linux-enabled iPods. If you don't know what this emans then you're pretty much safe! The virus is strictly proof-of-concept, and does no damage to the host machine."Virus hunters have...

"Sick" RFID tags - A Real Threat To Systems :: Symblogogy

"Many who work with RFID systems falsely believe that the only threat of virus infection to the computer's programs is through the standard entry points (new program downloads and transference, emails, hackers, and...

The Difference Between a Virus, Worm and Trojan Horse

"The most common blunder people make when the topic of a computer virus arises is to refer to a worm or Trojan horse as a virus. While the words Trojan, worm and virus are often used interchangeably, they are not the same. Viruses, worms and Trojan Horses are all malicious...

chlamydia - a sexually transmitted infection

"Chlamydia is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that infects both men and women. It is usually spread when an infected person has vaginal, oral or anal sex without a condom. It can also infect the eyes or lungs of babies who are born when the mom has chlamydia. How do I...

Gonorrhea - a sexually transmitted infection

"Gonorrhea is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that infects both men and women. It is usually spread when an infected person has vaginal, oral or anal sex without a condom. It can also infect the eyes of babies who are born when the mom has gonorrhea. How do I know if I...

Woman Has Rare Case of Bubonic Plague

The Bubonic Plague, more commonly referred to as the "Black Death," ravaged Europe between the years 1347 and 1350. During this short period, 25 million people (one third of Europe's population at the time) were killed.  Thousands of people died each week and...

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