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Popular Android Anti-Virus Software Fooled By Trivial Techniques
Slashdot (Tuesday, 7 May) - wiredmikey writes "A group of researchers from Northwestern University and North Carolina State University tested...
Malware devs offer $100 a pop for 'active' Google Play accounts
The Register (Saturday, 9 March) - Underground market is full of Android wrongness Virus writers are paying top dollar for access...
Latest trial of a virus engineered to kill cancer shows promise
Ars Technica (Monday, 11 February) - The vaccinia virus. CDC For roughly 20 years, scientists have been working to engineer...
Security firm Bit9 gets 'bit' after failing to install its own software
Beta News (Monday, 11 February) - The anti-virus and security business is a tough one, fraught with competition and cutting-edge technology designed to...
Virus helps scientists identify 'who's who' among two veggie enemies
PhysOrg (Monday, 11 February) - Natural warfare between a virus and a Pseudomonas bacterium is helping U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Unexpected bottleneck identified in spread of herpes simplex virus
ScienceDaily Tech (Wednesday, 6 February) - New research suggests that just one or two individual herpes virus particles attack a skin...
Genetically modified tobacco plants produce antibodies to treat rabies
PhysOrg (Friday, 1 February) - Smoking tobacco might be bad for your health, but a genetically altered version of the...
Even adaptable viruses have trouble surviving erratic temperatures
PhysOrg (Friday, 1 February) - (Phys.org)—Aside from rising sea levels, many climate change models predict that in the future, the...
Symantec: don't blame us for New York Times hack
The Register (Friday, 1 February) - AV giant says AV isn't enough these days... Symantec has taken the unusual step of...
Target 'super-spreaders' to stop hepatitis C
PhysOrg (Thursday, 31 January) - Each intravenous drug user contracting Hepatitis C is likely to infect around 20 other people...