Items tagged with attack

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Twitter Hit by Denial-of-Service Attack Friday, August 7th, 2009 - 14:45:05 - Anuradha Menon Internet attacks shut down the social networking site Twitter for about two hours on Thursday morning and caused glitches in other sites like... read more

4chan Block Confirmed After DoS Attack Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 - 11:54:51 - Ehud Rattner AT&T on Monday confirmed that it temporarily blocked Internet forum 4chan over the weekend after one of its customers was hit with a... read more

New 'Cyber Attacks' Hit South Korea Sunday, July 12th, 2009 - 16:32:39 - Sarah Gingichashvili South Korea is experiencing a third wave of suspected cyber-attacks - co-ordinated attempts to paralyse a number of major websites. One of the... read more

Great Whites 'Plan' Seal Attacks Monday, June 22nd, 2009 - 19:36:35 - Ehud Rattner Great white sharks do not aimlessly wander the ocean waiting to stumble upon their next meal. Instead, the biggest sharks identify a location from... read more

Bleeding Hearts Revealed with New Scan Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 - 14:22:04 - Anuradha Menon The research shows that the amount of bleeding can indicate how damaged a person's heart is after a heart attack. The researchers, from the MRC... read more

Protecting Against Rampant Conficker Worm Saturday, January 17th, 2009 - 12:02:51 - Anuradha Menon Businesses worldwide are under attack from a highly infectious computer worm that has infected almost 9 million PCs, according to antivirus company... read more

Model Predicts How to Build a Better Stent Wednesday, January 7th, 2009 - 12:03:51 - Anuradha Menon Researchers have been puzzled in recent years by observations that drug-releasing stents (mesh-like tubes implanted to hold patients' coronary... read more

'Curse of Silence' Smartphone Flaw Disclosed Saturday, January 3rd, 2009 - 18:35:50 - Anuradha Menon A denial-of-service attack that limits the number of SMS messages that can be received by Nokia smartphones has been disclosed and demonstrated... read more

Tissue Engineering to Mend Broken Hearts Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 - 10:18:14 - Anuradha Menon Broken hearts could one day be mended using a novel scaffold developed by MIT researchers and colleagues. The idea is that living heart cells or stem... read more

Zombies Attack WoW, GTA Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 - 12:07:45 - Ehud Rattner A horde of the undead is shambling across the bucolic forests of Lakeshire, through to the fortress of Stormwind, and onto...Liberty City? It appears... read more

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