Posted in News, Business, Politics, Virus, Places, People, Links, Tech News, Family, General on Jul 21st, 2010
A new approach to processing X-ray data could lower by a factor of ten or more the amount of radiation patients receive during cone beam CT scans, report researchers from the University of California, San Diego.Cone beam CT plays an essential role in image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), a state-of-the-art cancer treatment. IGRT uses repeated scans […]
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Posted in Business, Politics, Virus, Windows, News, Places, Links, Tech News, Friends, People, General on Nov 26th, 2009
Elpida Memory, Inc. (TOKYO:6665), Japan’s leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM), today announced that it had developed a 1-gigabit GDDR5 (product name: EDW1032BABG) that operates at a world-class high speed of […]
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Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced Check Point users of SmartDefense® Services and the newly introduced IPS Software Blade are already protected from an unpatched […]
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Posted in News, Business, Politics, Virus, People, Friends, Links, Tech News, Family, General on Sep 10th, 2008
MX Logic, Inc. today issued an Internet threat warning alerting businesses and consumers about an expected surge of potentially dangerous political spam, which may begin hitting inboxes as early as next week. Extra caution should be exercised with any politically-oriented email that directs recipients to external web sites or audio and video files. […]
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Sypris Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SYPR) will provide an online, real-time webcast and rebroadcast of its conference call for the second quarter financial results for 2008 on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. The live broadcast of Sypris Solutions’ quarterly conference call will be available online at http://www.sypris.com or http://www.earnings.com on July 30, 2008, […]
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A talking virus? No way. YES WAY!
Malware authors have developed a talking Trojan capable of taunting its victims even as it goes about its work trashing their PCs.
The BotVoice-A Trojan informs victims that their Windows PCs have been infected as it deletes files. The malware uses Windows text reader to play the following message:
You has […]
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The other day I posted a short column about blocking the PDF’s on my blog and a lot of people really enjoyed it - but on the other hand, some didn’t understand HOW to do it.
So now that I have some time, I thought that I would do a step by step procedure for you, […]
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Does the pdf e-mail virus have ya down? It did to me also until I thought of a way to keep it out of my regular e-mail.
I was getting at least 5 to 8 a day from all of my accounts.
A good way to block these junk pdfs is to set up a rule in […]
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Jon Lech Johansen, also known as DVD Jon and as the software engineer who released software code that cracked the DVD content-scrambling system in 2002, apparently has found details about iPhone and iTunes activation data and as well as a first key to open up the iPhone.
Readers have notified us that Johansen has published the […]
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According to anti-virus firm McAfee, 37,413 new malicious programs hit the internet last year, including exploit code and bots.
Paul Ferguson, a network architect at the security giant Trend Micro, argued the threat now requires some top-down authority to fix the problem; the current remediation model — which mostly involves running from one computer to another […]
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Virus Profile: W32/Whybo.worm
Virus Characteristics
The W32/Whybo.worm virus will infect any available network share as well as removable device with a copy of itself renamed “setup.exe” and an “Autorun.inf”.
It will also download and install on infected systems additional trojan copmponets from the web.
Upon execution it will kill any instance of the “Task Manager” as well as other […]
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Microsoft has released its May set of security patches, fixing critical bugs in Windows, Office and Exchange.
Seven groups of patches, called updates in Microsoft parlance, were released today, fixing a total of 19 bugs. Microsoft rates all seven of the updates as critical, but security experts said that IT administrators should be particularly concerned with […]
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Posted in News, Business, Politics, Virus, Video, People, Links, Tech News, Family, Friends, General on May 7th, 2007
A new survey shows a marked change in the rate and amount of identity fraud across the United States. Additionally, in a telling new find, the 2007 Identity Fraud Survey Report identified new popular approaches for criminal activity as a top takeover method that industry and consumers can address. The survey also points […]
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Microsoft on Thursday night added to its Malicious Software Encyclopedia four new malicious programs attempting to exploit the unpatched Domain Name System flaw in a broad array of its software. The company also added a new port to the list of ports that should be blocked for its Firewall and IPSec workarounds.
The MSRC’s Christopher Budd […]
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It’s back again, and stronger than ever. This scam is coming through the email and people are falling for it.
Lately a new type of e-mail scam has been circulating. This one promises you something you probably do want money. Don’t be fooled.
The scam, known as an “advanced fee fraud,” was around long before e-mail. These […]
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