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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
05:04 GMT |
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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
10:12 GMT |
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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
15:16 GMT |
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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
14:06 GMT |
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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
07:11 GMT |
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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
10:04 GMT |
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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
08:17 GMT |
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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
05:01 GMT |
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The two rovers on the surface of Mars are not doing very well, as the dust storm continues and is showing no signs of decreasing in intensity. Rising dust blocks sunlight from reaching the two rovers, who are now operating just above the critical energy level.NASA is worried that things could get worse. These storms... |
17 July 2007
05:07 GMT |
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The Red Planet is full of natural phenomena that are somewhat bizarre, considering the fact that Mars' atmosphere is less than 1 percent as dense as Earth's. But why do these strange phenomena occur, sometimes far more violent than similar ones in the much thicker atmosphere on Earth?Storms are the most en... |
11 July 2007
03:35 GMT |
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Canonical Ltd. released yesterday an important announcement regarding its Python-based Database Communication Tool, Storm. According to the press release, Storm will become the first open source component of Launchpad (web-based collaboration platform for open source developers). Gustavo Niemeyer, lead developer of ... |
10 July 2007
09:25 GMT |
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A gigantic storm, covering a large portion of the Martian surface has affected the two Mars Exploration Rovers, causing them to lose power. NASA is worried that things could get worse. These storms appear when the planet is closest to the Sun, which increases the overall temperature and produces huge winds that lift... |
5 July 2007
05:04 GMT |
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It seems the giant of our solar system is full of surprises. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took some astonishing pictures of the dramatic atmospheric changes on the planets, the like of which were never seen before.The planet already had some unique atmospheric features, like the high-altitude clouds and a haze... |
29 June 2007
08:06 GMT |
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The atmosphere on Mars is thinner than the one on Earth, with a surface pressure less than 1 percent that on Earth, but it is quite dusty. This doesn't prevent the planet from experiencing the largest dust storms in our solar system.Now, a gigantic storm is covering large areas of the surface, having the potent... |
28 June 2007
07:03 GMT |
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The aurora is a bright glow observed in the night sky, usually in the polar areas of Earth, as if the sun were rising from an unusual direction. In northern latitudes, it is known as the aurora borealis, named after the Roman goddess of the dawn, Aurora, and the Greek name for north wind, Boreas. Its southern counter... |
25 June 2007
05:59 GMT |
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Every 11 years, the Sun experiences its own "storm season," with violent explosions in its atmosphere, with an energy equivalent to a billion megatons and travelling towards Earth at about 1 million km per hour (about 0.05% the speed of light), though sometimes much faster. Predicting such events is not easy, but no... |
26 May 2007
08:02 GMT |
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The Cassini space probe brought new evidence that contradicts older theories, by showing that rotating eddies (Saturn's giant storms) are driving Saturn's jet stream winds, not the other way around."Intuition would say that the eddies take energy out of the jets, because of the friction and tugging of the... |
9 May 2007
15:41 GMT |
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NASA's New Horizons space probe is on its way to the last planet (actually the former last planet, as it was "degraded" to the rank of "trans-neptunian object" this year), Pluto. But on its way it took some very beautiful snapshots of Jupiter's system.In fact, the gas giant is so complex that it looks lik... |
2 May 2007
02:59 GMT |
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1 of 280,000 people are struck by lightning every year! "So why go outside? Bad things could happen!" Well, at least that's what David Lynch once said in a non-lightning related interview. But you do have to go out sometimes even if it's raining with flashes. So, if you're afraid of your own shadow and... |
27 April 2007
14:51 GMT |
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The first three-dimensional images of the sun have been released by NASA, enabling scientists, for the first time, to see structures in the sun's atmosphere in three dimensions thus helping them to track solar storms more accurately.The data transmitted by the twin Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatories, kno... |
24 April 2007
03:22 GMT |
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