Widespread destruction from Japan earthquake, tsunamis By the CNN Wire Staff
Widespread destruction from Japan earthquake, tsunamis By the CNN Wire Staff
Comment Open access Published: 23 August 2016 Gene name errors are widespread in the scientific literature Mark Ziemann1, Yotam Eren1,2 & Assam El-Osta1,3 Genome Biology volume 17, Article number: 177 (2016) Cite this article The spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel, when used with default settings, is known to convert gene names to dates and floating-point numbers. A programmatic scan of leading
WASHINGTON — Mysterious episodes that caused brain injuries in spies, diplomats, soldiers and other U.S. personnel overseas starting five years ago now number more than 130 people, far more than previously known, according to current and former officials. The number of cases within the C.I.A., the State Department, the Defense Department and elsewhere spurred broad concern in the Biden administrat
Authors: Bernd Eckenfels, Committer, and Gary Gregory, Vice President of Apache Commons In their talk "Marshalling Pickles – how deserializing objects will ruin your day" at AppSecCali2015 Gabriel Lawrence (@gebl) and Chris Frohoff (@frohoff) presented various security problems when applications accept serialized objects from untrusted source. A major finding describes a way to execute arbitrary J
We performed a large-scale study of RSA and DSA cryptographic keys in use on the Internet and discovered that significant numbers of keys are insecure due to insufficient randomness. These keys are being used to secure TLS (HTTPS) and SSH connections for hundreds of thousands of hosts. We found that 5.57% of TLS hosts and 9.60% of SSH hosts share public keys in an apparently vulnerable manner, due
The fish were often much bigger than the spiders that caught them Scientists have discovered that a number of spider species catch and eat fish. Spiders are traditionally viewed as predators of insects, but a new study suggests that eating fish is widespread among species that live near water. In some cases, the arachnids used powerful poisons to kill fish that were much bigger than them. Details
Widespread Blurring of Satellite Images Reveals Secret Facilities Want to know how to make a satellite imagery analyst instantly curious about something? Blur it out. Google Earth occasionally does this at the request of governments that want to keep prying eyes away from some of their more sensitive military or political sites. France, for example, has asked Google to obscure all imagery of its p
Widespread Loneliness Is Killing People And We Need to Start Taking This Seriously Researchers are warning that loneliness and social isolation is becoming a greater public health threat than the widely discussed problem of obesity. More and more people in the US are living alone, with declining marriage rates and fewer children - and psychologists are warning that the spread of loneliness is incr
Economic distress and anxiety across working-class white America have become a widely discussed explanation for the success of Donald Trump. It seems to make sense. Trump's most fervent supporters tend to be white men without college degrees. This same group has suffered economically in our increasingly globalized world, as machines have replaced workers in factories and labor has shifted overseas
Home • News • Press Room • Press Releases • Justice Department Charges Leaders of Megaupload with Widespread Online Copyright Infringement Info This is archived material from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) website. It may contain outdated information and links may no longer function. WASHINGTON—Seven individuals and two corporations have been charged in the United States with running an
Widespread XSS Vulnerabilities in Ad Network Code Affecting Top Tier Publishers, Retailers For most of us, the title of this post may not be very surprising. Any time we allow 3rd party scripts to run on our sites, we effectively relinquish control of the code that executes on the client. This is particularly important when integrating ad network scripts since they are inherently more dynamic than
The Twitter dashboard is showing performance issues at locations around the world. Steven Musil is the night news editor at CNET News. He's been hooked on tech since learning BASIC in the late '70s. When not cleaning up after his daughter and son, Steven can be found pedaling around the San Francisco Bay Area. Before joining CNET in 2000, Steven spent 10 years at various Bay Area newspapers.
Enlarge / The two legitimate signing certificates Stuxnet used to bypass Windows protections. One of the breakthroughs of the Stuxnet worm that targeted Iran's nuclear program was its use of legitimate digital certificates, which cryptographically vouched for the trustworthiness of the software's publisher. Following its discovery in 2010, researchers went on to find the technique was used in a ha
The crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima prefecture as of February 2012. Issei Kato/Getty Images. With an eye to the first anniversary of the tsunami that killed 20,000 people and caused a partial meltdown at the Fukushima power plant in Japan, a recently formed nongovernmental organization called Rebuild Japan released a report earlier this week on the nuclear incide
iMessage macOS Big Sur macOS Catalina Apple developer Here are the latest details on Apple outages affecting Mac apps, Big Sur updates, iMessage, and more Apple just released its major macOS update with Big Sur. While downloads are often slow with the large file and many users trying to get the software at the same time, it looks like download times are particularly slow this year and are failing
A leading Japanese virologist has received a 10-year publishing ban from the American Society of Microbiology after many of his published articles were found to have evidence of data manipulation. In its January 2011 issue, Infection and Immunity, an ASM title, is retracting five articles by the researcher, Naoki Mori, of the University of Ryukyus in Okinawa. The articles, published between 2000 a
A sonar image of a new methane plume discovered off the US east coast Researchers say they have found more than 500 bubbling methane vents on the seafloor off the US east coast. The unexpected discovery indicates there are large volumes of the gas contained in a type of sludgy ice called methane hydrate. There are concerns that these new seeps could be making a hitherto unnoticed contribution to g
Internet advertisers paid $800 million for bogus clicks on their marketing messages last year, shaking confidence in the industry and prompting many to reduce spending with Google, Yahoo and other Web sites, according to a study to be released today. The survey, by Outsell Inc., a market researcher in Burlingame, is one of the most detailed looks at the nagging, high-profile problem known as click
By ICSI researchers Christian Kreibich, Nicholas Weaver and Vern Paxson, with Peter Eckersley. UPDATE, 8/25/11: There are a couple of revisions to this post which are marked inline below, and explained further here. Earlier this year, two research papers reported the observation of strange phenomena in the Domain Name System (DNS) at several US ISPs. On these ISPs' networks, some or all traffic to
theory.isthereason kevin lim . social cyborg . cyberculturalist . edupunk . futurist Yesterday via the Second Life blog, I read a discussion Robin Linden had with the Sellers Guild about the implications of a recently-developed LibSL product called CopyBot. As Robin explains it: CopyBot allows the user to create a replication of an object, including textures, that is fully permissive. Needless to
PowerDuke: Widespread Post-Election Spear Phishing Campaigns Targeting Think Tanks and NGOs November 9, 2016 by Steven Adair In the wake of the 2016 United States Presidential Election, not even six hours after Donald Trump became the nation's President-Elect, an advanced persistent threat (APT) group launched a series of coordinated and well-planned spear phishing campaigns. Volexity observed fiv
LONDON (Reuters) - Population-wide face mask use could push COVID-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics, and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a British study on Wednesday. The research, led by scientists at the Britain’s Cambridge and Greenwich Universities, suggests lockdowns alone will not stop the resurge
Google's +1 Button Already More Widespread Than Twitter's Tweet Button [STATS] BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO platform provider, analyzed the 10,000 largest sites on the web and found a 33% surge in placement for Google's +1 button during the past few weeks. The company found that +1 buttons are now on 4.4% of those sites, up from 3.6% in June. Meanwhile, Twitter's plug-ins are displayed on 3.4% of
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