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A couple of researchers showed how a common flaw in the implementation of the most popular web programming languages and applications can be used to force servers to use their CPU at full capacity for several minutes, causing a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. Julian Wälde and Alexander Klink made a presentat... |
29 December 2011
07:16 GMT |
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With the purpose of making an experiment, Sophos researchers obtained a number of 50 USB sticks lost by their former owners on the trains owned by Australian Rail Corporation New South Wales (RailCorp). Researchers analyzed the data and the pieces of malware found on them just to see how many contained infections and... |
7 December 2011
09:36 GMT |
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A Brazilian security researcher set up an experiment to prove that he can get anyone to accept a Facebook friend request in a matter of hours, showing how privacy is still a major issue when it comes to social networking website.
According to Psyzone, Nelson Novaes, a researcher in the field of online security and b... |
30 November 2011
02:58 GMT |
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Supercomputers are all well and good, but it can be tricky to actually get data in need of research to them, so a team from Indiana University set about to make it possible.
Several universities got to test out, during the SC11 conference, particularly the SCinet Research Sandbox (SRS), a network that operated at 1... |
23 November 2011
09:41 GMT |
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A recent study shows that because of mistyped email addresses a lot of important information could be sent into the wrong hands.Domain typo‐squatting is widely used by spammers and hackers to spread out malicious messages to those who mistype a letter in the name of an address. The new type of scam, using Doppelgange... |
12 September 2011
10:59 GMT |
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Only a short while ago, Google rolled out a rather big redesign for its search site. It is part of the massive redesign effort across all Google properties. But even as Google is working on getting everyone else to upgrade, it's still not satisfied with the Search site and is experimenting with several variation... |
19 August 2011
11:30 GMT |
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In a giant outdoor laboratory, scientists used artificial landslides to uncover crucial details on these natural disasters, in an attempt to improve forecasts of their size and impact.In order to do so, they built a 2-meter-wide, 95-meter-long (6-foot-wide, 310-foot-long) slide – also called a 'flume'... |
20 December 2010
06:38 GMT |
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Researchers from St Michael's Hospital in Toronto, Canada, found a way for women suffering from gestational diabetes to exercise, without having to go outside, in the cold: they will offer those recently diagnosed with gestational diabetes a Nintendo Wii gaming console, a Wii Fit activity platform as well as two... |
14 October 2010
11:11 GMT |
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Two judgments can be better than one, but only if you have the right partner, a new study carried out by neuroscientists from University College London and Aarhus University, Denmark suggests.The study tested volunteers that came into the lab in pairs, and concluded that two heads are better than one but only if both... |
27 August 2010
09:54 GMT |
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The Mars 500 experiment is set to begin, Russian authorities in charge of the project have recently announced. The six volunteers, who will be locked together in a mock-up of a future Mars-bound spacecraft, will remain in complete isolation for more than three months, during which time they will live the life destine... |
27 March 2009
09:57 GMT |
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The catch-phrase “there's not enough time” is probably very familiar to people working on various projects, as part of a team. The specter of the passing hours always looms over their heads, even if, in reality, they have more than sufficient time to complete their task. And this is where a new scien... |
11 February 2009
11:01 GMT |
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In a replicated experiment, scientists discovered the fact that people were very likely to continue administering electric shocks to other people, if they were told to do so by an authoritarian figure. The first conclusion of this kind belonged to an experiment conducted in 1961 by Professor Stanley Milgram, of Yale ... |
19 December 2008
06:00 GMT |
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First things first... I do not care if anyone is tired of puzzles... This one is worth your time... Especially since it's pretty different from the stuff we're used to seeing around. It contains balls, but it's not a ususal 3-match-swap puzzle... or any other kind of swap puzzle around.Second... The ch... |
2 November 2007
11:45 GMT |
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Snails are famous for their "incredible" speed and they never seem to be in a hurry. Well, this time they seem to be pretty fast when it comes to getting in the outer space. It took them almost two hours to get to the International Space Station (ISS).They have been launched on Friday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in... |
14 May 2007
02:57 GMT |
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Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas that we release into the atmosphere when we exhale. It is also the greenhouse gas responsible for up to 26% of the greenhouse effect on Earth. Some of it occurs naturally in the atmosphere, while most of it results from human activities such as burning of fossil fuel and coal.Since we ... |
1 May 2007
10:13 GMT |
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Methane is a chemical compound with the molecular formula CH4. It is the simplest alkane and the principal component of natural gas. Burning one molecule of methane in the presence of oxygen releases one molecule of CO2 (carbon dioxide) and two molecules of H2O (water).Unfortunately, it's also an important gre... |
30 April 2007
06:59 GMT |
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The possible existence of "sterile neutrinos" has been a problem for the scientific community since the LSND experiment in the 1990s that appeared to contradict findings of other neutrino experiments worldwide by suggesting that some muon antineutrinos had flipped into electron antineutrinos after traveling about 30... |
12 April 2007
09:54 GMT |
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A European Space Agency study has discovered experimental evidence of magnetic reconnection occurring in turbulent plasma fields surrounding the Earth.Plasma turbulences are caused by an irregular behavior of particle flows and magnetic fields within which many small-scale boundaries can form.Our first line of defen... |
29 March 2007
06:46 GMT |
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