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When you launch IE in Windows after an initial install, the first page you see is Microsoft’s MSN portal. One day, Windows users could open that MSN home page and get slammed with malware hiding in the ads. More...

Link Removed Concern remains over the potential effect on human health from radiation leaks at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. A 20km (12 mile) evacuation zone affecting about 70,000 people has been imposed around the plant. Residents living within 30km (18 miles) have been advised...

A new exploit for IE9 bypasses all security measures in even the latest fully patched version of Windows 7, according to a French security company Vupen. Link Removed - Invalid URL

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The massive earthquake that forced the closure of four nuclear power plants in Japan has highlighted the grave risk of inadequate back-up generators at U.S. facilities, a leading U.S. scientist group said on Friday. While the U.S. regulator made clear that the national...

In September 1999, three workers were exposed to extremely high levels of radiation at a uranium conversion plant in Tokaimura (70 miles from Tokyo) and 150 others were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. One of the workers died in December, 1999. Another worker died in April 2000. It was...

Link Removed Tokyo. The radioactive core in a reactor at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant appears to have melted through the bottom of its containment vessel and on to a concrete floor, experts say, raising fears of a major release of radiation at the site, the Guardian reported. The...

The most difficult thing in a nuclear crisis, the Tokyo firefighter said, was the inability to sense where the danger was. The Tokyo Fire Department's elite rescue team was among those called in to cool down a nuclear plant north of the capital that was badly damaged by a March 11 earthquake...

Ah, summer days at the public swimming pool: No running, swim at your own risk and of course, no diving. Darren Taylor clearly doesn't remember that rule: The Denver resident recently broke the "certified shallow diving record," aka, the "hurling oneself from a very great height into a pool...

March 16, 2011, Tokyo, Japan]-----50 evacuated workers at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant are reportedly back on the job Wednesday, desperately trying to avert a nuclear meltdown. U.S. experts say the situation there is dire and workers may be on a suicide mission, as they may likely be...

How much radiation is dangerous? Radiation is measured using the unit sievert, which quantifies the amount of radiation absorbed by human tissues. One sievert is 1,000 millisieverts (mSv). In the U.S., the average person is exposed to about 6.2 millisieverts a year, mostly from background...

Stricken nuclear cores cooling naturally . By Gerard Wynn LONDON, March 14 (Reuters) - The risk of a major radiation leak in Japan is subsiding as stricken nuclear reactors cool, but there will be major clean-up costs and three reactors will probably be written off, experts said on Monday. A...

Water drop at one reactor twice left uranium fuel rods exposed, increasing risk of the spread of radiation and potential for a meltdown More Link Removed

Steve Ballmer said that Windows 8, or to be more precise, the next release of Windows, would be Microsoft’s riskiest upcoming product when interviewed at the Gartner Symposium. No additional information where given by Mr Ballmer, leaving a lot of people puzzled by the answer. If you’d ask tech...

I have been told ot to download movies, but not why. What is the down side of this practice? It seems like I can't watch a movie without downloading.

Hello everyone - It's a new year and the Microsoft Security Response Center is ready to provide the Link Removed - Invalid URL for January's security bulletins. We have two bulletins addressing three vulnerabilities in Windows. The first bulletin is Important and affects Windows Vista. The...

Would you bet your life in a 1-300 chance? SPACE.com -- Asteroid With Chance of Hitting Earth in 2029 Now Being Watched 'Very Carefully'

Source: Neowin.net - Exclusive: New Facebook exploit hits the web Update: If your account has been hijacked, take the following steps: 1) Visit the Facebook "Upload via Email" page 2) Click "Send me my upload email" 3) Click the "refresh your upload email" link. This will reset your...

Revision Note: V1.0 (November 9, 2010): Bulletin Summary published.Summary: This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for November 2010. Link Removed due to 404 Error

Severity Rating: Important - Revision Note: V1.0 (October 12, 2010): Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves thirteen privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file or...