In an example of how a PR idea can turn against the company it was meant to promote, McAfee’s allegedly secure URL shortening service can be used by phishers to bypass URL filters and enhance attacks.The security giant launched its own URL shortener, called mcaf.ee, back in September, based on an idea from its ... |
6 December 2010 05:36 GMT |
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Scientists at Mayo Clinic along with Belgian collaborators have found a way of guiding stem cells so that they can heal, repair and regenerate damaged heart tissue.Generally, stem cells isolated from patients have a limited capacity of repairing the heart, and this new method that researchers found, actually managed ... |
17 August 2010 06:56 GMT |
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Despite the fact that Windows Vista was not sent barefoot into the world as was the case with Windows XP, and instead came packed with antipiracy mitigations from an intimate connection with the Windows genuine Advantage mechanism to the Reduced Functionality Mode kill switch, cracks for the operating system were not... |
12 February 2008 11:55 GMT |
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It seems that a multicore computer may have a dangerous vulnerability that can lead to serious security problems. It is all based on concurrency, which is not a capacity that single core computers have. This great feature has been turned into a downfall, by researcher Robert Watson that showed how it could be exploit... |
17 September 2007 04:09 GMT |
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They say alcohol doesn't help if you want to get slimmer, even if the beer belly seems to be a myth; beer makes you fat rather by increasing your appetite than by the calories it contains. Now, another negative link between alcohol and physical shape has been found by researchers: people who undergo gastric bypa... |
16 June 2007 06:07 GMT |
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