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6 Steps To Help Secure Your Brand-New PC

It takes only 20 minutes for an un-patched and unprotected computer to be attacked once connected to the Internet. In that time, your pristine computer could be turned into a zombie. Zombies are machines that have been secretly taken over by hackers. The zombie networks are leased to criminals who...

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Marshall Islands email paralysed by 'zombie' attack

MAJURO AFP — Email communication in the Marshall Islands was paralysed Tuesday after hackers launched a "zombie" computer attack on the western Pacific nation's only Internet service provider, officials said. The attack starting early Tuesday, in which hackers used computers taken over by viruses to flood the Internet...

Articles 2008-06-24

Bloodletting put the Life back into Standard

He sold Pounds 7.5bn in shares and cut 5,000 jobs. But Sandy Crombie has finished with his scalpel, he tells Simon Evans The slogan "I like Standard Life" was trumpeted in the insurer's recent advertising campaign. Few of its investors, or analysts in the...

Articles 2008-06-15

Shyamalan is back

There seem to be a lot of people gunning for Philadelphia's own M. Night Shyamalan, and "The Happening" will give them more ammo. It's a typically ambitious Shyamalan venture - he throws his hat in the apocalypse-movie ring, takes up environmentalism in a big way, references 9/11 and pays...

Articles 2008-06-13

Gen-Y Social Application Demand Continues to Grow as Facebook Plans Platform Redesign

In May 2007, Facebook launched itsFacebook Platform and opened its API to application developers. A yearlater, according to survey results announced today by Peanut Labs Inc.,provider of unmatched Gen-Y sample for market researchers, application useamongst 13 - 25 year olds has continued to rise, while banner advertisingstruggles to inspire...

Articles 2008-06-09

Summertime sports: From baseball to rodeos, sports fans have oodles

So, you've been sleepwalking since the Utah Jazz were eliminated from the NBA playoffs, and you're not sure if debating or defending BYU's recruiting tactics with Riley Nelson and Malosi Te'o will keep you occupied until the state's favorite sports fire up again next fall? In other...

Articles 2008-06-03

Zombie targets

From Zombie Targets Zombies have always been irksome. They creep along in an unholy manner, smell rank and don't have much to say for themselves. So, what can a zombie possibly be good for? How's this for a brilliant idea? Zombies would make perfect targets! They are impervious...

Articles 2008-06-01

Demolition derby: Summer is the season of home repair or, when the stars align, home domolition in preparation for home repair. When ripping things apart, try these power tools

* Dead On Tools Steel Hammer This hammer looks as if it were cut from the steel dreams of Philip K. Dick, and when you swing it you can hear the electric sheep scream. Vibration-dampening technology cuts back on the nightmares. $39, deadontools.com * Dead On Tools Annihilator...

Articles 2008-06-01

Empire

Empire David Dunwoody Permuted Press apocalypticstories@gmail.com 9781934861028, $14.95, www.permutedpress.com A hero isn't suppose to wear a black robe and carry a scythe. "Empire" is the story of the Grim Reaper himself and a nasty problem he faces--that legions of undead...

Articles 2008-06-01

Dance of the living dead

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Michael Jackson's original "Thriller" dance sequence took place on the street--so what better place to reenact it? Surprised pedestrians have vacated sidewalks--and even subway cars--for dancers performing the famous zombie dance in Sydney, Copenhagen, and London over the past few weeks. Part of Sony BMG's guerilla...

Articles 2008-06-01

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies

Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies Tom Demarco & Collaborators of Principals of the Atlantic Systems Guild Dorset House Publishing 353 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10014 9780932633675, $41.95, www.dorsethouse.com What makes a project successful or doomed--loved or hated? Those...

Articles 2008-06-01

Johns World

I want to talk to all you married folks out there for a minute. Or those of you who could be married if you'd just give up hope and settle. You know who you are. You may have noticed in the past few months that the two...

Articles 2008-05-16

Toronto offers Memorial Day fun starting at $98 US a night

TORONTO, May 13 /PRNewswire/ -- May Long Weekend in Toronto offers an action - packed calendar of events, shows and attractions to invigorate imagination among the whole family. Special packages starting at $98 US a night make it easy for families and couples to plan a holiday in Toronto....

Articles 2008-05-13

MicroServe Consulting Announces Expansion of their Managed Security Service Product

MicroServe now offers customers nationwide the protection from "zombies" and the other evils that lurk on the Internet. GERMANTOWN, Md. -- In response to the increasing number of network security attacks businesses face every day - from viruses to "zombie" takeovers -- MicroServe Consulting, Inc. (www.msconsulting.com) announces the...

Articles 2008-05-13

GWYNETH: I MAY ADOPT A CHILD NEXT

MUM-OF-TWO Gwyneth Paltrow has told how she may adopt her next child to avoid the "nightmare" of pregnancy. The 35-year-old actress, who has a daughter and son with Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, said that being pregnant made her feel "like a zombie". ...

Articles 2008-05-11

TV film

Shaun of the Dead tonight 11pm ITV2 Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright's "rom-zom-com" proves that British cinema can compete on US genre turf, but at its witty heart sits - well, slouches - something more pleasing: a comedy of loserdom that never loses sight...

Articles 2008-05-10

Commtouch Expands Data Center Infrastructure, Launches Asian Detection Facility

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Commtouch[R] (Nasdaq:CTCH) today announced the launch of a new detection center in Hong Kong, the Company's fourth worldwide. Commtouch's globally distributed detection centers currently process over one billion messages per day to identify suspicious traffic in a patented process known as Recurrent Pattern Detection[TM] technology....

Articles 2008-05-06

Zombies and Tetrodotoxin

In the July/August 2007 issue of SKEPTICAL INQUIRER, Costas J. Efthimiou and Sohang Gandhi (2007a) argued that Haitian voodoo witch doctors create real zombies by using preparations containing the poison tetrodotoxin TTX I will address several problems with the Efthimiou and Gandhi paper and then discuss the wider issue of...

Articles 2008-05-01

Zombie culture; autopsies of the living dead

Zombie culture; autopsies of the living dead. Ed. by Shawn McIntosh and Marc Leverette. Scarecrow Pr. 2008 241 pages $40.00 Paperback PN1995 This collection of 12 very lively essays on the undead focuses primarily...

Articles 2008-05-01

Creepy Cute Crochet

Creepy Cute Crochet Christen Haden Quirk Books 215 Church Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106 Chronicle Books distributor 680 Second Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 9781594742323, $14.95 www.chroniclebooks.com 1-800-722-6657 Ever wanted to hail Cthulhu in crochet form? "Creepy...

Articles 2008-05-01