Swine Flu Spreads As Schools Resume Classes

Hundreds of students were infected with H1N1, swine flu, as schools resumed classes for the fall in the U.S. Students in at least 17 colleges were affected. School officials are preparing buses to transport sick students, and are also setting up isolation dorms and...

2008 a great year for hi-tech crooks

Crime thrives in the hi tech world. 2008 has seen the amateur days of tempting you to open an unknown email with promises of enlarged body parts, unimaginable sexual delights or cheap mortgage money die away. Now...

'Koobface' Virus Attacks Facebook

"Attention new viewers: those 5000 "friends" you have on Facebook? They might not actually be your friends. In fact, some of them might be scammers trying to infect your computer with a new virus dubbed "Koobface". Koobface, which already made the rounds on MySpace, is now...

Computer Hacker Sentenced to Two Years in Federal Prison

" SACRAMENTO, Calif.—United States Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced today that GREGORY KING, 21, of Fairfield, Calif., was sentenced to two years in federal prison. KING was also...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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