THE DEADLY virus Kyasanur Forest disease has reportedly infected hundreds of people, leaving 19 dead. Signs ands symptoms of the infection include low blood pressure and vomiting.
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Italian man deliberately infects 32 women with HIV, gets 24 years in jail
Published time: 28 Oct, 2017 04:31 Edited time: 28 Oct, 2017 05:14 An HIV-infected man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for deliberately passing on the virus to over 30 women after luring his victims via online platforms to have unprotected sex with him. On Friday, the Court of Appeal of Rome found […]
One of 1st-known Android DDoS malware infects phones in 100 countries
Enlarge (credit: portal gda) Last year, a series of record-setting attacks hitting sites including KrebsOnSecurity and a French Web host underscored a new threat that had previously gone overlooked: millions of Internet-connected digital video recorders and similar devices that could easily be wrangled into botnets that challenged the resources of even large security services. Now, […]
Norovirus OUTBREAK: School closed after stomach bug infects ‘significant number’ of pupils
The school in Bridgend had to temporarily shut doors after several of its pupils fell ill with a sickness bug. On Friday morning parents of children at Brynmenyn Primary were informed that classes would be cancelled so that the school could undergo a thorough cleaning. A spokesman from Bridgend county borough council said: “As a […]
Norovirus OUTBREAK: School closed after stomach bug infects ‘significant number’ of pupils
NOROVIRUS is thought to be the reason for the absences of a ‘significant number’ of pupils from a Welsh primary school that was forced to close last week. Daily Express :: Health Feed
How the CIA infects air-gapped networks
Enlarge / A configuration screen found in the Drifting Deadline exploit. (credit: WikiLeaks) Documents published Thursday purport to show how the Central Intelligence Agency has used USB drives to infiltrate computers so sensitive they are severed from the Internet to prevent them from being infected. More than 150 pages of materials published by WikiLeaks describe […]
Hack Brief: Dangerous ‘Fireball’ Adware Infects a Quarter Billion PCs
A widespread adware infection hides the ability to inflict far worse than spammy browser tweaks. The post Hack Brief: Dangerous ‘Fireball’ Adware Infects a Quarter Billion PCs appeared first on WIRED. WIRED
Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them
Enlarge (credit: Seth Anderson) Mirai, the botnet that threatened the Internet as we knew it last year with record-setting denial-of-service attacks, is facing an existential threat of its own: A competing botnet known as Hajime has infected at least 10,000 home routers, network-connected cameras, and other so-called Internet of Things devices. Hajime uses a decentralized […]
A new mood of optimism infects investors in China’s banks
GUO SHUQING, China’s new banking regulator, knows the enormity of his task. China’s banking system, he observed last month, is worth more than $ 33trn. So it is bigger than any other country’s, and even than Europe’s as a whole. And he is well aware of the pitfalls left by a decade of breakneck lending […]
