News tagged with attacks
Research shows fish oil may protect against stroke from ruptured carotid artery plaques
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Research led by Hernan A. Bazan, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Section of Vascular Surgery, at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Medicine, has found that unstable carotid artery plaques - those in danger ...
Wis. paper faces backlash for outing Web critic
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Getting named the local paper's Person of the Year was supposed to be an honor for small-town politician Dean Zuleger. But the award only enraged many townspeople.
Public opinion a good predictor of terror attacks: study
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Public opinion polls are good predictors of terrorist attacks, according to a study published Thursday which argues that terrorists do not act independently of their countrymen's attitudes.
Stories we tell about national trauma reflect our psychological well-being
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study by psychologists at the University at Buffalo and the F. W. Olin College of Engineering finds that in the aftermath of national trauma, the ability to make sense out of what happened has implications ...
SKorean police: Hackers extracted data in attacks
Jul 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hackers extracted lists of files from computers that they contaminated with the virus that triggered cyberattacks last week in the United States and South Korea, police in Seoul said Tuesday.
SKorea says attackers use IP address in 16 nations
Jul 10, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Cyber attacks that caused a wave of Web site outages in the U.S. and South Korea used 86 IP addresses in 16 countries, South Korea's spy agency told lawmakers Friday, amid suspicions North Korea was ...
US wants privacy in new cyber security system
Jul 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Obama administration is moving cautiously on a new pilot program that would both detect and stop cyber attacks against government computers, while trying to ensure citizen privacy protections.
Dutch researchers develop self-learning security system for computer networks
Technology / Computer Sciences
Jun 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cyber attacks on computer networks are becoming increasingly commonplace. To counter the threat, they are protected by so-called network intrusion detection systems. But these fail to identify some attacks, ...
Clones of 9/11 hero dog unveiled in Los Angeles
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Five clones of a search and rescue dog which helped locate people trapped in the rubble of the 9/11 attacks were formally presented to their ancestor's former handler.
SKorea military networks under growing cyber attack
Jun 16, 2009 |
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South Korea's military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said Tuesday.
'New arms race' taking shape in cyberspace: Van Loan
May 27, 2009 |
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A "new arms race" is taking shape in cyberspace, Canada's security czar said Wednesday, lamenting ever bolder and more sophisticated attacks on government websites by Russia, China and others.
High self-reported asthma rates in Chinatown, N.Y.
May 19, 2009 |
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Research conducted seven years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York City (NYC) found that children attending the socioeconomically and ethnically homogeneous elementary school closest to ...
Audit: Air traffic systems vulnerable to attack
May 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The nation's air traffic control systems are vulnerable to cyber attacks, and support systems have been breached in recent months allowing hackers access to personnel records and network servers, according to a new ...
SKorea and US forge deal to fight cyber attacks
May 04, 2009 |
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South Korea and the United States have agreed to cooperate in fighting cyber attacks against their defence networks from countries including China and North Korea, officials said Monday.
Report: US cyber warfare needs oversight, debate
Apr 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Shrouded in secrecy, the U.S. government's policies on how and when to wage cyber warfare are ill-formed, lack adequate oversight and require a broad public debate, a new report by the National Research Council says.
