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Twitter, like many of the new tech superstars relies heavily on open-source technology and, in return, has open-sourced a number of its projects. Facebook is another prime example, though on a larger scale.Twitter announced last week that it will be open-sourcing a massive, real-time data processing technology dubbed... |
8 August 2011
09:30 GMT |
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While analyzing a recent spam campaign, security researchers found what seems to be a new version of the Storm or Waledac botnets.Storm was one of the first and most successful botnets of all times. At its peak, in 2007, it was composed of millions of infected computers and could take entire countries off the Interne... |
3 January 2011
09:55 GMT |
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On Monday, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion announced the launch of its BlackBerry Solution on the market in China, through an agreement with wireless carrier China Telecom. According to the duo, the BlackBerry solution will be delivered to China Telecom enterprise customers across its EVDO 3G network ... |
18 May 2010
02:48 GMT |
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Mobile phone users in Canada can now enjoy a series of more BlackBerry smartphones with lower price tags than before. We already reported that Bold 9700 enjoys a lower price tag on Bell, and that the BlackBerry Storm is available for free from the same carrier on a three-year contract agreement, and now we learn tha... |
1 February 2010
14:41 GMT |
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Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion made official its second touchscreen-enabled BlackBerry device yesterday, the Storm2, a handset that is set to raise the bar when it comes to the user experience RIM's touchscreen devices can deliver, while also coming to the market without the faults that the previ... |
16 October 2009
06:16 GMT |
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Mobile phone carrier Verizon is reported to be on its way to add another QWERTY device to its offering, this time the Motorola A4500 (which was also known as Napoleon). The handset looks nice, though not as great as one would expect, especially when compared to the BlackBerry 9630 Niagara, which is reported to come w... |
29 April 2009
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Starting today, Verizon Wireless plans to offer one BlackBerry for free for every similar handset acquired. This special buy-one-get-one-free offer will run from February 6 until March 31, and is reported to apply to all BlackBerrys in the carrier's offering, including the newly added Storm. While the fact tha... |
6 February 2009
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Vodacom South Africa and Research In Motion announced the introduction of the BlackBerry Storm on the South African market. The smartphone is available for both Vodacom’s Prepaid and Contract customers across the country starting January 28, and comes with support for the BlackBerry Internet Service and BlackBe... |
31 January 2009
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The new Blackberry Storm has been and still is one of the most appreciated models on the market, now officially becoming Verizon's best selling phone. Even though many compare its success to that of the iPhone, thus trying to undermine it, the Storm still raises people's interest. As we already menti... |
19 December 2008
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A new study supported by NASA and the National Science Foundation has reached more thorough results related to the way solar storms affect the Earth's magnetic shields, making the old views inaccurate. Depending on the alignment with the Sun's magnetic field, our own develops two huge holes which allow larg... |
17 December 2008
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We actually don’t know that many things about stars, despite the fact that there have been many attempts and numerous researches in the field. The only close star we have most access to, theoretically speaking, is the Sun. But we only know little about it as well, given the still limited technology we have, and... |
13 December 2008
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Telus has decided that, since the holidays are almost here, it would be great if it had a hit device on its shelves. So that things would evolve in the right direction, Telus has brought Canadian users the Storm, a highly appreciated device.By now, the Storm is a pretty well known mobile, but just in case, its main f... |
11 December 2008
06:12 GMT |
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There's definitely no need for a reminder of the destructive force of hurricanes, typhoons, or other types of powerful storms. Sadly, especially in the light of the recent tragedies caused by Ike, even children know what such a phenomenon can do. For decades or more, scientists (and not only them) have been drea... |
2 December 2008
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Moving from a place after having spent an entire life there and being used to it is possibly among the most difficult things to do, as it changes everything. But when the alternative is losing all, perhaps even your own life, the situation may not look so grim. This problem should be considered by those who live in t... |
28 November 2008
14:51 GMT |
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It looks like Bell and Telus will be the ones enjoying the arrival of the BlackBerry Storm, and probably at the about the same time. This information has reached us after an email has been sent out to those signing up for updates, in which the device is described as the first BlackBerry touchscreen smartphone ever. A... |
28 November 2008
07:43 GMT |
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Cassini, the spacecraft that is the result of the collaboration between NASA and the Italian Space Agency, has recently discovered a giant cyclone on Saturn's northern pole, and has provided pictures of the known, similar phenomenon from the south pole in much greater detail than those previously obtained. ... |
15 October 2008
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Although Ike only registered as a category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson measuring scale, it eventually proved to be the third most devastating storm in American history, after Katrina and Andrew, as it surpassed Katrina at certain moments (the most costly storm ever) in intensity. This proves that a new approach... |
14 October 2008
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According to Sophos, company that specializes in endpoint security and control solutions, spam messages have started to circulate informing users (erroneously of course) that popular social networking site Facebook is used by the FBI in an effort to track people down. In order to get you hooked and open the spam mess... |
29 July 2008
09:36 GMT |
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TrendMicro, company that specializes in Internet content security, reports that the Storm botnet is once again attempting to propagate its malicious software. The means to do so is by sending out spam messages which inform about a financial crisis that will engulf the world's economy. A link is of course provide... |
22 July 2008
06:49 GMT |
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After the recent 4th of July campaign, Storm related spam is once again making the news. The latest Storm spam messages inform you that the US military has invaded Iran and you are of course invited to click on a link and watch video footage directly from the battle scene, but if you do, you will be infected with ir... |
9 July 2008
07:52 GMT |
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The Storm botnet has caused serious problems for both security companies and users around the world because it appeared in lots of variants which attempted to trick security software and bypass protection. However, according to a new report published by MessageLabs, the Storm loses more and more ground to other threa... |
7 May 2008
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There are three natural phenomena accompanying the storms that fascinated and frightened human mind since prehistory, when explanation for such powerful natural phenomenon were attributed to gods and spirits. The thunderbolt is an electric discharge accompanied by a vivid light and a powerful sound, which occurs betw... |
12 April 2008
07:29 GMT |
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Security company SecureWorks has published a report revealing the most dangerous botnets spotted on the web and, even some of you may expect to the Storm on the first position, it's only the fifth. Thus, the first place was "won" by Srizbi, also known as Cbeplay and Exchanger, which is a rootkit enabled botnet t... |
10 April 2008
02:46 GMT |
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The all so hated billions of spam messages are coming from a surprisingly small number of zombie networks, also known as botnets, according to net security firm Marshall, who analyzed the numbers. There is a big variation from each and every one of the group, but the metrics for the passed month indicate that 85 perc... |
3 March 2008
15:31 GMT |
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The dangerous Storm Trojan is out in the wild again and lurking, waiting to infect people's computers, and this time the approach is a bit different. It's no longer playing on people's emotions for various holidays like in the past, with Christmas or Valentine's, probably because there aren't... |
3 March 2008
11:41 GMT |
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The thunderbolt is an electric discharge accompanied by a vivid light and a powerful sound, which occurs between two clouds or between a cloud and the ground or objects on the ground. The thunder is a noise accompanying an atmospheric electric discharge (lightening or thunderbolt). The lightning is a luminous electri... |
16 February 2008
03:34 GMT |
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Would you like to have your computer infected and have it spread the love that the Storm botnet has for everybody? Then, don't open emails that have something of the following in their title: "Looking for that perfect Valentine's Day Gift?" or "Make Valentine's Day Night a memorable one." While I don&#... |
11 February 2008
12:31 GMT |
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The tornadoes are short and small storms, but the most violent of all types. They emerge and evolve over the inland continental areas. The best conditions of tornado formation appear when a cold air current chokes with a mass of wet warm air, giving birth to enormous dark clouds (called cumulonimbus). These clouds ... |
11 February 2008
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For the third month in a row, Europe has been the top source of spam, according to security vendor Symantec. It's a worrying fact, because historically, the United States have been the leader of the trend, both in spam sent and as the most spammers' home. Hearing what Frederik Sjostedt has to say and in wha... |
6 February 2008
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Meteorological systems are continuously moving air masses, with diameters of 150-4,000 km (92-2,500 mi). Some are 12-15 km (7.5-9.2 mi) deep, located in the troposphere (the lower layer of the atmosphere). Those that are 1-3 km (0.6-1.8 mi) deep are faster. The meteorological systems are defined by their variations i... |
21 January 2008
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Remember the latest Storm that infected a huge number of computers? Well, it's back. This time, it comes with Christmas-related offerings. Just like usual, the most dangerous threat is delivered by email, so in case you receive suspect messages, you're advised to delete them as soon as possible. Most emails... |
27 December 2007
04:01 GMT |
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Indigenous and rural people, staying in a closer contact with nature, can predict the weather by "reading" flora and fauna. For example, in Europe, people know when a rainfall is approaching because lettuces, Hipochoeris radicata (a forb), and wall lettuces open their leafs. Bees, too, hurry up to their hive, the but... |
21 December 2007
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The online attackers are looking for a new way to conduct exploits and it seems like they finally found it: the free Geocities service provided by the super giant Sunnyvale company Yahoo. According to a blog post published on the Trend Micro Malware Blog, some scammers aim to lure visitors to access the Geocities pag... |
16 November 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Storm is one of the top computer threats this year when numerous systems got infected in every corner of the world. Although it was said the Storm avalanche was stopped, it seems the computers might be threatened one more time as Joe Stewart of SecureWorks discovered new signs of infection. The best way to find out i... |
14 November 2007
03:06 GMT |
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Here's a great offer for you! Click on a link and not only get a free Kitty Card from Psycho Cat, but you also get a nice virus infection! How about that? I haven't written anything about Storm in quite a while - it was about time it popped up again! You know, Storm, it's old, but always new. Storm is ... |
12 October 2007
04:50 GMT |
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This has to be the best analysis I've ever seen. This report shows how the masterminds behind the Storm virus have made this infection so popular, where it came from and how it evolved. If you ever wanted to find out anything about Storm, then the report written by the guys at the Cyber-threat Analytics is the b... |
10 October 2007
02:57 GMT |
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The Windows operating system is at the heart of a violent wave of malware referred to as "Storm." Distributed Denial of Service attacks, mass phishing emails, spam, botnets, are just some of the examples of online malicious activity generated as a consequence of the attackers leveraging the Windows Storm malware. Jim... |
24 September 2007
07:31 GMT |
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I cannot believe this! The e-mail borne Storm just started infecting web pages. And what can I say? Its new feature popped up in style after it infected a US Republican Party site. The webpage got hacked and it had been spreading a form of Storm that would attack any vulnerable machines that visit the site. It is not... |
17 September 2007
08:59 GMT |
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These guys are serious about fighting the Storm virus. It has many names and many faces, but all of you know what threat I'm talking about. It's the Trojan bot that has formed the world's largest botnet with more computing power than BlueGene! In any case, Threatstop came up with something to hit Storm... |
13 September 2007
10:06 GMT |
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This virus has changed its face so many times, that I, for one, have lost track of them. It began its spam campaign with a storm in Europe and since then it sent mails regarding many subjects out of which I can mention celebrity videos, Labor Day cards and account authentication related mails. Of course, now it has m... |
10 September 2007
10:45 GMT |
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Storm is going to be a legend, even after it'll go down. I'll tell my grandchildren about it. It's one huge threat and now it's acting like the viruses from the movies. Do you remember "Terminator", starring Arnold Schwarzenegger? Skynet was a sort of computer virus that took over everything and s... |
10 September 2007
07:03 GMT |
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This was clearly the week of the cyberwar as there were so many news about it and so many people panicking and agitating on this matter. It all started with a piece of news that appeared in the Financial Times - the Pentagon had been hacked in June and some parts of its computer system had been taken down. Hacker tra... |
9 September 2007
09:46 GMT |
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IBM has been making supercomputers for a long time now and they have a lot of experience in this domain. Their machines' computing power is huge, but it has been recently surpassed by new-comer Storm. It may sound as this "Storm" is a creator of such machines, but actually - it's not. It's a virus.Thin... |
7 September 2007
10:16 GMT |
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Boy, is this a persistent threat! I never had anything to do with it, but it still annoys me! This virus has been plaguing users for three months now! Do these hackers know no shame? I mean they use every possible reason to send spam. Jesus! Now they're using Labor Day as an excuse to send electronic greeting ca... |
5 September 2007
05:58 GMT |
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Not even Google's defenses can fight off such a virus. It pounded on Blogger and infected a lot of its sites! It's had 1000 faces and it continues to wreak havoc on the Internet. Storm has been plaguing us since the beginning of the year and it's one heck of a resilient threat. I don't think I�... |
30 August 2007
02:55 GMT |
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It hasn't stopped yet; the Storm virus still rages on the Internet, and now it has changed a bit, in order to trick users even better. Of course it still uses standard-issue hacker technique - involving high-profile names to create an illusion of credibility. According to eWeek, this has actually nothing to do w... |
28 August 2007
03:36 GMT |
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Some people are curious and sometimes click on dubious links they receive in their e-mails, then they get infected with viruses. There has been a lot of recent talk about the Storm virus that sends a lot of spam with links to different websites, all containing malware. So, now you will get to know what such messages ... |
21 August 2007
06:47 GMT |
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The hackers that have initially created Storm, a powerful trojan-type bot are continuing to use it, but since the old tactics... well... they were old, the hackers decided to change them to achieve more effectiveness.What the initial Storm virus did was spam all the time - the users usually received a postcard on the... |
20 August 2007
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NASA's two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on the red planet in 2003, to explore the Martian surface and geology. Despite all the technical and atmospheric difficulties they have encountered in their missions, they kept going and were the main actors in a planetary science revolution.They have been ... |
25 July 2007
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The dust storm on Mars has been going on for nearly a month and is now blocking around 85 to 90 percent of all sunlight to the surface. If it doesn't calm down in more than two weeks, the two NASA rovers on the surface, Spirit and Opportunity, will run out of power and will go permanently offline.Scientists don... |
21 July 2007
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