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Twitter Links The Virus Planet
"There are 10 billion trillion, trillion viruses inhabiting Earth... more stars than are in the Universe"

March 9 2012, 4:36am | Comments
Twitter Links Computer viruses infecting worms to create hybrid 'Frankenmalware'
Most computer users are all too aware of the threat of viruses and worms infecting their machines, but according to security research firm BitDefender…

January 28 2012, 11:36am | Comments
Twitter Links Paper On Super Flu Strain May Be Banned From Publication
"A Dutch researcher has created a virus with the potential to kill half of the planet's population."

November 29 2011, 7:53am | Comments
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November 27 2011, 4:16am | Comments
Link Information Wants to be Consumed
Although information spreads, virus-like, through replication, this replication, as Walter Benjamin foresaw, involves a dispersion that allows images or data to be seen in different places, in different contexts (what…

August 3 2011, 6:00am | Comments
Link How Digital Detectives Deciphered Stuxnet, the Most Menacing…
On June 17, 2010, Sergey Ulasen was in his office in Belarus sifting through e-mail when a report caught his eye. A computer belonging to a customer in Iran was…

July 13 2011, 3:09am | Comments
Link 40th Anniversary of the Computer Virus
This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world’s first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300…

March 16 2011, 2:50pm | Comments
Link The New Virology
Largely unseen by the world, two dangerous germs homed in on their targets in the spring and early summer of 2009. One was made by man to infect computers. The…

March 3 2011, 8:45am | Comments
Link The not so universal tree of life or…
According to this view, ancient viruses, as with the ones today, could only make copies of themselves by succesfully infecting a host. So they become engines of innovation, using every…

March 2 2011, 7:32am | Comments
Link Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering cell
The video above captures the moment when a malaria parasite invades a human red blood cell - the first time the event has been caught in high resolution. The Plasmodium…

January 24 2011, 3:54am | Comments
Link The dark side of the internet
In the 'deep web', Freenet software allows users complete anonymity as they share viruses, criminal contacts and child pornography. The modern internet is often thought of as a miracle of…

December 8 2009, 8:14am | Comments
Link If zombies actually existed
If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried…

August 22 2009, 7:03am | Comments
Link Smart machines: What's the worst that could happen?
An invasion led by artificially intelligent machines. Conscious computers. A smartphone virus so smart that it can start mimicking you. You might think that such scenarios are laughably futuristic, but…

July 30 2009, 1:45pm | Comments

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