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Botnet Hijacking Steals 70GB of Data

(PhysOrg.com) -- Security researchers have uncovered one of the most notorious zombie networks, the Torpig botnet, by collecting 70GB of data that was stolen in just 10 days.

Technology / Internet

created May 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0 weblog

OpenDNS service is an alternative to major Internet providers

You turn on your computer and try to log onto your favorite sites. Nothing happens. A message at the bottom of your screen tells you your computer is trying to connect, and trying and trying.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Quality of life may impact coping strategies of young women with breast cancer

Numerous studies have shown a relationship between coping strategies and quality of life (QOL) among women with breast cancer. In a study published today in the online edition of Journal of Behavioral Medicine, an invest ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Motor proteins may be vehicles for drug delivery

Specialized motor proteins that transport cargo within cells could be turned into nanoscale machines for drug delivery, according to bioengineers. Chemical alteration of the proteins' function could also help inhibit the ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Sony e-book reader gets 500,000 books from Google

(AP) -- Google Inc. is making half a million books, unprotected by copyright, available for free on Sony Corp.'s electronic book-reading device, the companies were set to announce Thursday.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Mar 19, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Obama's CIO: Gov't data can drive innovation

(AP) -- The White House's first chief information officer, Vivek Kundra, wants Americans to have access to more government data to drive innovation and help stimulate the economy.

Technology / Business

created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study of protein structures reveals key events in evolutionary history

A new study of proteins, the molecular machines that drive all life, also sheds light on the history of living organisms.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1

Researchers Isolate Protein Domain Linked to Tumor Progression

(PhysOrg.com) -- When a promising cancer drug reached clinical trials in the 1990s, researchers were disappointed by the debilitating side effects that limited the trials. The drug inhibited a family of enzymes known as matrix ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

How a Cell's Mitotic Motors Direct Key Life Processes

University of Massachusetts Amherst biologists have discovered a secret of how cells organize chromosomes to prepare for dividing. Their unexpected finding is reported in this week’s issue of the journal, Current Biology.

Biology /

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New insights into growth factor's role in brain development

New research sheds light on a neural growth factor called proBDNF, finding that it is present and potentially active during the perinatal period when the brain's circuitry and memory-encoding regions are being refined. Led ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Domain walls that conduct electricity

The logic and memory functions of future electronic devices could shrink dramatically - to one or two nanometers (billionths of a meter) instead of the many tens of nanometers that characterize today's most ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 29, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Researchers Can Detect Tunnel Excavation With Fiber Optic Cables

(PhysOrg.com) -- With the same type of fiber optic cables used in telecommunications systems, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a way to detect and pinpoint the excavation ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 12, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers discover 'on switch' for cell death signaling mechanism

Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have determined the structure of the interactions between proteins that form the heart of the death inducing signaling complex (DISC), which is responsible for ...

Biology /

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0