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An experimental drug reduces the stroke risk in patients with irregular heartbeats by more than three times, compared with the popular drug warfarin — but possibly at a cost, according to new research released Sunday. Patients taking the new drug dabigatran etexilate, made by German pharmaceutical Boehringer Ingelheim, also were slightly more likely to have [...]
Users believe mobile phones are more secure than PCs, according to the latest research by security firm Trend Micro released yesterday. The Smartphone Consumer Market Research Report interviewed over 1000 respondents and found that around 44 per cent are ignoring the potential dangers of malware and other threats targeted at mobile devices. Read more…
The MacPorts project is an open-source community initiative to design an easy-to-use system for compiling, installing, and upgrading either command-line, X11 or Aqua based open-source software on the Mac OS X operating system. MacPorts 1.8.0 brings a long list of news: There is now a ‘build_arch’ variable, available in portfiles and configurable in macports.conf, which [...]
The new version of a U.S Senate bill allows President Barack Obama to seize temporary control of private sector networks during a cybersecurity emergency. The bill allows the President to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” related to the “non-governmental” computer networks for dealing with cyber threat. The bill is introduced by senator Jay Rockefeller, a West [...]
It all used to be simpler for Mac users: viruses and other malicious software affected Windows computers, not them. That is slowly changing. “The threats have intensified,” says Candid Wuest from anti-virus maker Symantec. The biggest threat comes from hackers trying to sneak viruses onto computers. OSX.RSPlug.A is the name of one that preys on [...]
Sharp Electronics this week introduced a netbook-like mobile device with a 5-inch touch screen that is designed to run Internet-based applications. The PC-Z1 device is as easy to handle as a mobile phone and provides performance similar to PCs, the company said in a statement. It is designed for an audience that relies mostly on [...]
Organized cyber-gangs in Eastern Europe are increasingly preying on small and midsize companies in the United States, setting off a multimillion-dollar online crime wave that has begun to worry the nation’s largest financial institutions A task force representing the financial industry sent out an alert last week outlining the problem and urging its members to [...]
Only days after Swiss programmer Ruben Unteregger released the source code for a Trojan he wrote three years ago to hack Skype phone calls, the inevitable has happened – someone has released it as a compiled piece of ‘faux’ malware. Unteregger posted the code on his website under a GLPv3 license, presumably in the hope [...]
A number of corporate entities have been buying information stolen from competing businesses by computer hackers in an effort to gain or maintain market advantage, the Sunday Observer has been informed. The revelation was made by Cyber Crime Investigation and Research Unit boss Detective Sergeant Patrick Linton in an interview with the Sunday Observer yesterday. [...]
You run a boutique and imagine yourself being grilled by cops for a “terror e-mail” sent by you. Obviously the goings-on might go beyond your comprehension, but don’t be surprised. Hackers have now resorted to a unique method of hacking one’s e-mail -called ‘e-mail header spoofing’. This was what Sunny Vaghela, director and CTO of [...]
