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Cyber-security expert finds new flaw in smartphones
Just as U.S. companies are coming to grips with threats to their computer networks emanating from cyber-spies based in China, a noted expert is highlighting what he says is an even more pernicious vulnerability in smartphones.
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Study finds how bacteria resist a 'Trojan horse' antibiotic
A new study describes how bacteria use a previously unknown means to defeat an antibiotic. The researchers found that the bacteria have modified a common "housekeeping" enzyme in a way that enables the enzyme ...
Mar 19, 2012 |
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Hi-tech 'Trojan horse' can kill cancer cells: researchers
Australian researchers are set to begin human trials of a tiny nano-cell that acts as a "Trojan horse" against cancer cells, a breakthrough they say may curb the need for debilitating chemotherapy.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Hacker group accuses German government of using illegal Trojan horse
(PhysOrg.com) -- Governments all over the world are wrestling with the legalities of computer snooping in their efforts to catch people doing illegal things, or to prove that wrongful acts have been committed after the fact. ...
Oct 11, 2011 |
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Plutonium tricks cells by 'pretending' to be iron
(PhysOrg.com) -- Plutonium gets taken up by our cells much as iron does, even though there's far less of it to go around.
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Android users get malware with their apps
(PhysOrg.com) -- As new platforms make their way into the market there will always someone who is looking to exploit them for illegal or unethical ends. More proof of that fact has come today when Google was ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Can an MP3 hack your car?
(PhysOrg.com) -- The idea that someone can get into your car without your permission isn't a new one. It's about as old as the coat hanger, but that was back in the days when you locks had a pull up button. ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Mar 18, 2011 |
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Foreign hardware could be designed to launch cyber attacks against US companies and consumers
(PhysOrg.com) -- A security official at the Department of Homeland Security recently released a statement that confirmed the idea that some foreign-made computer components are actually being designed to make the job of launching ...
Jul 11, 2011 |
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Tit-for-tat hack as Israeli posts Saudi credit cards
An Israeli hacker published details of what he claimed were more than 200 Saudi-owned credit cards online overnight in a revenge attack after a similar move by "Saudi" hackers earlier this month.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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Wiretapping Skype calls: virus eavesdrops on VoIP
(AP) -- Some computer viruses have a crude but scary ability to spy on people by logging every keystroke they type. Now hackers and potentially law enforcement have another weapon: a virus that can eavesdrop on voice conversations ...
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Trojan horse for ovarian cancer -- nanoparticles turn immune system soldiers against tumor cells
In a feat of trickery, Dartmouth Medical School immunologists have devised a Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer, unleashing a surprise killer in the surroundings of a hard-to-treat tumor.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Small company working toward what could be a breakthrough: a drug that kills only cancer cells
Maybe Hugh McTavish wasn't so tough after all. Seven years ago, doctors told McTavish he needed chemotherapy to treat his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. McTavish, then a 40-year-old patent attorney, was young and fit, so he asked ...
Jul 08, 2009 |
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With likely 'Kindle' tablet, Amazon takes on Apple
(AP) -- So far, no company has been able to even come close to rival the success of Apple's iPad, but with the expected unveiling of its version of a tablet computer Wednesday, analysts say Amazon has a real chance.
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Nearly two dozen PCs in Japanese government offices found to have Trojan horse viruses
Personal computers at the head office and local branch offices of the Japanese Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry have been infected with computer viruses and have repeatedly been accessed by servers abroad, according ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Norway hit by major data-theft attack
(AP) -- Data from Norway's oil and defense industries may have been stolen in what is feared to be one of the most extensive data espionage cases in the country's history, security officials said Thursday.
Nov 17, 2011 |
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