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Prosecutors say man stole 130M credit card numbers

Technology / Internet

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 4

(AP) -- Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a Miami man with the largest case of credit and debit card data theft ever in the United States, accusing the one-time government informant of swiping 130 million accounts on ...


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PWN2OWN Hacker Contest Targets Smartphones

Technology / Software

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- TippingPoint, a security response team at 3Com Inc, had offered $10,000 for each exploit of any smartphones, which included Apple Inc.'s iPhone and RIM's BlackBerry, as well as phones running ...





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Major breakthrough could lead to new antibiotics for human use

Major breakthrough could lead to new antibiotics for human use

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The means to fully understand and exploit a type of fungus that could form the basis of a new class of antibiotics has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol. With certain ...


Gliomas exploit immune cells of the brain for rapid expansion

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gliomas are among the most common and most malignant brain tumors. These tumors infiltrate normal brain tissue and grow very rapidly. As a result, surgery can never completely remove the tumor. Now, the neurosurgeons Dr. ...


Male Australian redback spiders employ courtship strategies to preserve their life

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research shows that male suitors of a female cannibalistic spider risk facing a premature death unless they perform an adequate courtship lasting a minimum of 100 minutes. Further, the research shows ...


Why people fall victim to scams

Why people fall victim to scams

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The psychological reasons consumers may fall victim to mass marketed scams are revealed today in groundbreaking research.


Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Pickin' Up Good Vibrations to Produce Green Electricity

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vibrations from the environments we live and work in could be much more widely harnessed as a clean source of electricity, due to cutting-edge UK research.


Unlocking the Secret of the Bladder's Bouncers

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Duke University Medical Center may have a new way to stop and even prevent the urinary tract infections (UTIs) that plague more than a third of all adults, some of them repeatedly.


Scientists get up close to bacteria's toxic pumps

Scientists get up close to bacteria's toxic pumps

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists are building a clearer image of the machinery employed by bacteria to spread antibiotic resistance or cause diseases such as whooping cough, peptic stomach ulcers and legionnaires' disease.


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Microsoft releases security patch for Web browser

Technology / Software

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Microsoft released a security patch on Tuesday aimed at preventing hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in its Web browser, Internet Explorer.


Disease-causing Escherichia coli: 'I will survive'

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Strains of Escherichia coli bacteria that cause food poisoning have been shown to have marked differences in the numbers of genes they carry compared to laboratory strains of E. coli. Some of these genes may enable them t ...


Singapore scientists license lab-in-a-cartridge

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

Rapid, easy and affordable tests for cancer and avian flu and other infectious diseases move a step closer to patients as DYAMED Biotech Pte Ltd licenses a unique all-in-one automated diagnostic system called MicroKit from ...



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