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Officials from within the Iranian Oil Ministry claim to have discovered the true reasons for which their systems have recently been targeted by hackers.
According to Fars News, Deputy Oil Minister Hamdollah Mohammadnejad has revealed that the nature of the attack and the identity of the hackers have been discovered,... |
2 May 2012
06:46 GMT |
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“If you get an instant message from anyone about a new browser called RockMelt- it is a virus. DO NOT OPEN IT. I don’t care who sends it. Please repost. This is spread to your friends if you open it,” reads the post that circulates on Facebook.
As Hoax Slayer highlights, RockMelt is certainly not a... |
16 April 2012
08:11 GMT |
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The world renowned hardware manufacturer HP issued a security bulletin to warn HP ProCurve 5400 zl switch owners who purchased the device after April 30, 2011, that the compact flash cards contained in them may be infected with a virus that can spread to computers. The company proposes two ways of resolving the issu... |
12 April 2012
06:18 GMT |
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Russian anti-virus vendor Doctor Web has conducted a study to determine the scope of the Trojan BackDoor. Flashback spreading across Macintosh computers and learned that the botnet encompasses more than 600,000 infected machines. Most of these infected Macs are located in the United States and Canada, as shown in th... |
5 April 2012
07:11 GMT |
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After a scientific investigation that lasted more than a decade, researchers finally announce the development of a vaccine against hepatitis C. Until now, all other attempts at creating a working vaccine have failed, so the disease was classified as incurable. In an announcement made yesterday, February 20, at the ... |
21 February 2012
02:54 GMT |
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Security experts show that a virus can take full control over an Internet Explorer browser and manipulate bank transactions in real-time even if the bank’s customer that’s about to perform the task relies on an OTP (one time password) device. Yash K.S., chief technology officer at Red Force Labs, release... |
18 January 2012
07:58 GMT |
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San Francisco City College staff members noticed that the computers found in a lab in the Cloud Hall on the Phelan Avenue campus were infected with a computer virus. After thoroughly investigating the matter, it turned out that the institution’s networks were plagued with malicious software from more than a dec... |
14 January 2012
06:55 GMT |
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In times where every single task is based on computers, a virus could be more than enough to give a convict a second chance.
After being convicted of second degree murder, Randy Chaviano, a Florida man, wanted to appeal his conviction, but to the court’s surprise the legal records of the initial trial could no... |
5 January 2012
03:00 GMT |
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The Canadian salmon is threatened once again, this time not by human influence or sea lions, but by a potentially lethal new virus that could make more than a few victims.
This topic is being analyzed by the Supreme Court, that wants to find out whether the wild Pacific salmon is exposed to this threat and also, wh... |
16 December 2011
04:26 GMT |
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The Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia, suffered a serious computer virus infection that temporarily disabled their services, the medical facility being able to provide help only to those who had extreme emergencies.
WSBTV reports that the virus affected the hospital’s networks, employees being ... |
14 December 2011
05:45 GMT |
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The developers at Radical working on Prototype 2 have made it clear that the race of the main character of the game does not in any way change his attitude towards life and the rationalization behind hid in-game actions.Ken Rosman, who is the leader of the Radical development studio, told the Official PlayStation Mag... |
7 December 2011
09:51 GMT |
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A set of new teasers have unveiled a new PlayStation 3 exclusive, called The Last of Us, which is set to be officially unveiled at the VGA ceremony that is set to take place during December 10.The teasers show a number of real world natural disasters while a narrator talks up the pleasures of a simpler life, one whic... |
6 December 2011
14:11 GMT |
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As Christmas is approaching, crooks and scam artists will rely on old tricks to attract the attention of Internet users and more precisely, social media customers. The old Christmas Tree App Virus hoax was again seen circulating on Facebook and the social networking website issued a warning to remind everyone that it... |
2 December 2011
07:18 GMT |
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You might have already read about how the Institute of Process Engineering of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS-IPE) were able to use molecular-dynamics simulations to simulate the whole H1N1 influenza virus. If you haven't, you might want to stop by here and read about it, since it was the first computer simul... |
12 November 2011
12:11 GMT |
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The H1N1 seems to come back in the newspaper headlines, so researchers from Philipps University of Marburg in Germany, published a paper that explains in what way the 'swine flu' contributed to a better understanding of pandemic outbreaks.The authors reveal important lessons about the origins of 2009 H1N1, ... |
13 January 2011
03:12 GMT |
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A new research carried out by scientists at the National Institutes of Health, served as foundation for a computer model that projects the severity of this year's flu season, and that could be used in the planning process for seasonal influenza.This statistical model predicts how many people will get sick from s... |
9 December 2010
07:14 GMT |
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Researchers from Purdue University and Pasteur Institute, discovered the atomic-scale arrangement of proteins in a structure, which allows a virus to invade and fuse with host cells, and they showed the way that the structure morphs with changing acidity and starts infection.The Purdue team showed the structure of th... |
2 December 2010
09:20 GMT |
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For a while now, researchers have been wandering how come HIV kills T cells, when most of them seem to be 'bystander' cells, that are not productively infected, and have now found a reasonable explanation.The death of CD4 T cells is what marks the progression of the HIV virus to fully developed AIDS, and th... |
25 November 2010
03:56 GMT |
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A new research carried out by Michael Kaplitt of the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City and colleagues, showed that gene therapy delivered to a certain part of the brain could reverse the symptoms of depression in mice.This could open the way to a new approach of treating severe cases of depression in hum... |
21 October 2010
09:43 GMT |
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Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) observed the behavior of the HIV protein, called Gag, and learned more about the infection process of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).This newly developed research method allow... |
15 October 2010
08:19 GMT |
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A team of researchers led by research professor Jerry Bromenshenk from the University of Montana in Missoula, and including virologists and chemists from the U.S. Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center and the Instituto de Ecologica AC in Mexico, has been working on the causes of the bee colonies collapse, ever sin... |
9 October 2010
04:51 GMT |
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This is a Warcraft III: Frozen Throne map that was created using the Felwood tileset with a size of 128x192 of which only 98x173 playable.Be a virus and kill an entire person. Take over cells and reproduce, then destroy the vital organs (stomach, heart and brain). If you take over the stomach, bacteria can enter the... |
30 September 2010
11:52 GMT |
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People should know better not to take antibiotics when having a viral infection, but the most concerning thing is when actual doctors make this mistake on their patients.A study published in the November issue of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, concluded that doctors are frequently misusing antibiotics w... |
23 September 2010
10:28 GMT |
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The combination between two drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration revealed to be an efficient treatment against HIV in mice.Scientists at the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center have combined two drugs currently used against pre-cancer and cancer therapy, and found out that the HIV infection i... |
21 August 2010
06:13 GMT |
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A heart and skeletal muscle inflammation (HSMI) was reported to affect farmed salmon In Norway, in 1999. This fatal disease can now be found in 417 fish farms in Norway and in the United Kingdom. It has become a threat for the farmed fish industry, but the even more concerning problem is that the disease can spread t... |
10 July 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Intego, the self-touted Mac security specialist, has launched VirusBarrier X6 for Mac OS X, an upgrade to the VirusBarrier X5 anti-malware software sold and advertised by the company over the past year. VirusBarrier X6 is said to provide comprehensive protection from both malware and network threats. Noting that Vir... |
15 January 2010
10:14 GMT |
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In a recent blog post, Sophos’ Paul Ducklin sounds the alarm over a new piece of iPhone malware that apparently uploads stolen data to a Lithuanian server, while each device is assigned a unique ID as a reference for the attackers. Although the intent of the worm is yet unclear, the virus apparently searches fo... |
24 November 2009
05:05 GMT |
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Security experts at TrendMicro have discovered at least 1,300 public Google Reader pages infected with a new Koobface type of attack. Hackers have employed Google Reader accounts to host links redirecting users to a Koobface infected page.Attackers employed Google Reader's possibility to share links and messages... |
10 November 2009
09:20 GMT |
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There has been an awful lot of security talk lately, concerning both the iPhone and the Mac. Coupled with Kasperski’s recent release of its Anti-Virus solution for Mac OS X, and now an updated ClamXav virus checker on the loose, we’d say there is little time left before Apple can no longer rub security in... |
9 November 2009
09:27 GMT |
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A handful of jailbroken iPhone users who installed SSH from Cydia (in order to connect to their phone and make changes to the filesystem) have found that a hacker has created a worm set to infect them. The worm, affecting SSH-enabled devices whose owners forgot to change the default password, changes the background i... |
9 November 2009
05:33 GMT |
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In order to protect Windows PCs on mixed networks more effectively, Kaspersky Lab has released Kaspersky Anti-Virus for Mac OS X. The new product has access to the company’s global antivirus database that includes information on more than 20 million malicious programs for several different platforms. “K... |
6 November 2009
04:01 GMT |
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Security company Sophos has tested Windows 7 RTM and found that the latest iteration of the Windows client from Microsoft is vulnerable to no less than 8 out of 10 viruses currently spreading in the wild. The security outfit put a clean install of the gold edition of Windows 7, which hit store shelves worldwide... |
5 November 2009
03:50 GMT |
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A new iPhone application developed by the Harvard Health Publications Division of the Harvard Medical School is now available in the iTunes App Store. Dubbed the “HMSMobile Swine Flu Center,” the app is touted as being a vital tool that leverages Harvard’s extensive knowledge and provides the public... |
28 October 2009
09:59 GMT |
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In an official report, McAfee Inc. reveals that it has expanded its endpoint-protection products for Mac OS X with the release of McAfee Endpoint Protection for Mac. The company now offers a comprehensive endpoint-protection solution that surpasses traditional anti-virus pieces of software, according to the official ... |
15 October 2009
10:18 GMT |
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Intego has updated its flagship Mac app that protects your Mac from all known Mac viruses and malware, VirusBarrier X5. Version 10.5.10 is a maintenance update that adds enhanced compatibility with Snow Leopard. “Since 1997, Intego has made a name for itself in the Internet security and privacy market for Appl... |
25 September 2009
06:20 GMT |
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ClamXav, the free virus checker for Mac OS X, has been updated to version 2.0.2 beta and is available for download today. ClamXav uses the ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a backend and is able to successfully check for viruses. According to the release notes for ClamXav 2.0.2 beta, developer Mark Allan added ... |
14 September 2009
09:31 GMT |
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Following news that Snow Leopard has a built-in antivirus tool, Softpedia has come across a new “Security” tab on Apple’s website, under Mac OS X. According to the Mac maker, its OS “has you covered,” so you can just go about your business without the hassle of configuring security setti... |
27 August 2009
09:45 GMT |
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The Norton Safe Web project, run by Symantec, issued a list containing the dirtiest websites on the web. The dirty site list is spearheaded by a website containing no more, no less than 56,371 malware threats. The average of all websites on the list is a staggering 18,000 different threats. Coming to show no surpris... |
21 August 2009
08:13 GMT |
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Even if harmless, the first virus that infects the environment of a programming language has been reported by Kaspersky. The virus scans for a Delphi platform, attaches itself to the embedded compiler and infects any Delphi program compiled from that moment on. According to Denis Nazarov from Kaspersky Labs, “... |
19 August 2009
06:11 GMT |
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The Symbian Foundation admitted recently that it needed to improve the process of testing the applications digitally signed for the Symbian-based mobile phones due to the fact that it had allowed a botnet-building Trojan to slip through the filtering process. The Trojan horse program that managed to pass the security... |
19 July 2009
06:01 GMT |
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Although the security firm is quiet about its plans, a job posting on the company's website reveals that AVG is looking for a senior software developer who is familiar with the Mac OS X platform, according to The Register. AVG Antivirus is a competent security solution for Windows platforms, available in free an... |
3 July 2009
10:14 GMT |
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McAfee, the security firm that proactively secures systems and networks from known and as of yet undiscovered threats worldwide, has released McAfee Security for Mac 1.0 Beta 1. The software is an integrated suite of products that “uses advanced heuristics and protects Apple computers from viruses, trojans, spy... |
12 May 2009
03:53 GMT |
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Intego, the self-touted Macintosh security specialist, has announced the release of VirusBarrier X5 10.5.8, an update to its antivirus software for Mac OS X. According to the latest security report at Intego, the new version offers enhancements to the program’s logs, while improving performance for several key ... |
6 May 2009
10:57 GMT |
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Intego, the self-touted “Mac security expert,” has posted a new advisory on its website, claiming it has proof of a yet-non-existent piece of malware. Intego has named the new proof-of-concept malware OSX/Tored.A, and has updated its flagship security app for Mac with a new malware class. The company itse... |
30 April 2009
02:56 GMT |
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The world's first Mac OS X botnet has reportedly been discovered. Symantec researchers Mario Ballano Barcena and Alfredo Pesoli said the malware was actually discovered back in January, and came courtesy of two trojans, previously reported of here on Softpedia. According to Symantec's researchers, a Mac OS... |
17 April 2009
06:31 GMT |
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Compound 1, also known as NSC89853, is the enigmatic name under which researchers in Hong Kong and the United States have presented a new substance, which they say is able to effectively counteract influenza strains, including the H5N1 that causes avian flu. The compound is said to be able to effectively block the vi... |
16 April 2009
09:53 GMT |
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Intego, the well-known security firm that provides the widest range of software to protect Mac users from the dangers of the Internet, has announced the discovery of a serious worm that may affect Windows computers - Conficker. Intego claims that the worm has been getting a lot of attention, including some “air... |
7 April 2009
06:45 GMT |
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PC Tools has released iAntivirus 1.35, the latest version of its antivirus software for Mac. Debates whether or not Macs need antivirus solutions belong in the comments. For now, existing users are advised to update. Newcomers should read the full piece to learn more about iAntiVirus for Mac.According to the release ... |
10 March 2009
07:01 GMT |
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Whenever we enter a waiting room, be it at the doctor, dentist or even hairstylist, we just know that some things will be there no matter what. A water dispenser and a coffee table filled with magazines are only two of these things, and it’s the latter we must protect ourselves against, if we really want to avo... |
24 February 2009
07:08 GMT |
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Security firms Intego and Sophos are warning against downloading pirated copies of Adobe Photoshop CS4 for Mac. The same kind of Trojan that can be found in illegal copies of iWork '09 is also included with the contents of Photoshop CS4 copies available via BitTorrent trackers and other sites linking to illegal ... |
27 January 2009
04:40 GMT |
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