There is a link between having parasitic worms in your stomach and being protected from allergies, shows a new study conducted in Vietnam. The study looked for a link between hookworm and other types of parasitic worms and the rates of allergies in humans. The researchers...
created by Annina Bergman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 181 views | 4 recommendations | 0 comments
"Jackson virus and spam spreads on Internet" " San Francisco: Security researchers warned on Thursday of the increasing levels of viruses and spam using Michael Jackson's name to snare unsuspecting users. One e-mail carries the subject line "Remembering Michael Jackson" was...
created by archita | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 170 views | 8 recommendations | 0 comments
The Conficker C Worm (aka April Fools Worm) didn't do much of anything on April Fool's Day, but infected machines around the world are beginning to show some worm-instigated activity. Update: Update: Conficker C is also installing scareware, a fake anti-virus alert that...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1844 views | 14 recommendations | 0 comments
GhostNet, an international cyber espionage network, hacked into the Government of Bhutan's computer system. Eleven computers belonging to the Foreign Ministry department and one computer of the Labour Ministry have been infected with the virus. "Eleven computers in...
created by Suranee | 4 years ago 201 views | 10 recommendations | 0 comments
Update: April 1 is here, and no real activity from the Conficker C worm. While reports have surfaced of infected machines calling for (possible) further instructions, nothing has actually happened yet. This could be...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 15201 views | 46 recommendations | 5 comments
A judge in California on Monday ordered convicted spammer Sanford 'Spamford' Wallace to stay away from Facebook. Wallace is accused of flooding Facebook users with unsolicited messages, which appear to...
created by Mary Richard | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 269 views | 26 recommendations | 5 comments
According to Arbor Networks the Downadup/Conficker Virus has already affected as many as 12 million computers worldwide. Microsoft is now offering $250,000 to whoever finds who is behind the virus. " Since it...
created by mazevedo | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 537 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
Malicious program, to infect computer is killing millions of computers.In this tough times when consumers across the world is facing hard times this kind of entry by virus is really troublesome.As per latest figures approx 9 million computers are already infected." Infections...
created by Amitjha | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 179 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
"IT systems at St Bartholomew's (Barts), the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel and the London Chest Hospital in Bethnal Green were taken down on Tuesday following infection by the Mytob worm. The three...
created by LoopZilla | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 539 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Proof that no computer system is immune to a virus attack, the crew of the International Space Station is having to update its anti-virus software, after the fact."...according to NASA, this wasn't the first...
created by mchawk | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 1063 views | 23 recommendations | 14 comments
Two years ago Anthony Franz started eating at Shaw’s Crab House in Chicago. He apparently became ill after eating a salmon salad, and ended up passing a 9-foot tapeworm. A pathologist said the tapeworm...
created by poolparty | 4 years ago 3235 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Leave it to malware creators to turn your Facebook session into a remake of The Thing. In this case, a new work replicates by nesting in a Facebook or MySpace account and then sending out copies of itself via the...
created by Jordan Yerman | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 165 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Thanks to salt and hot chili peppers, researchers have found a calculus-computing center that tells a roundworm to go forward toward dinner or turn to broaden the search. It's a computational mechanism, they say, that is similar to what drives hungry college students to a...
created by ryanborja | 4 years ago 224 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
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Honeycomb worms build the reef by creating tightly packed tubes from sand and shell on moderately exposed shores.
Although quite brittle, the reefs provide stability for a mix of other species including...
created by JonBaker | 5 years ago | updated 5 years ago 226 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Inventive people, those Kiwis, hopefully this idea won't drown in its own excrement..."A New Zealand man feels as though he is up shit creek after a complaint was made about his use of the efficient composting tiger worms - in his composting toilet. Seems a zealous...
created by matte | 5 years ago 230 views | 0 recommendations | comments