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Srizbi spam botnet in failed resurrection

After being stranded for weeks, a monster botnet responsible for an estimated 40 percent of the world's spam was able to briefly reconnect to its mothership in a tense international duel playing out online that could have a dramatic effect on the amount of junkmail flowing into inboxes everywhere.

Monster spam botnet briefly resurrected from the dead

After being stranded for weeks, a monster botnet responsible for an estimated 40 percent of the world's spam was able to briefly reconnect to its mothership in a tense international duel playing out online that could have a dramatic effect on the amount of junkmail flowing into inboxes everywhere.

Massive Botnet Returns From the Dead To Spam On

CWmike writes "Gregg Keizer reports that the big spam-spewing Srizbi botnet, shut down two weeks ago when McColo was shuttered, has been resurrected and is again under the control of criminals, security researchers said today. As of late Tuesday, infected PCs were able to successfully reconnect with new command-and-control servers, which are now based in Estonia, said Fengmin Gong, chief security content officer at FireEye. The comeback confirms what researchers noted last week, that Srizbi had a fallback strategy. So, in the end, that strategy paid off for the criminals who control the botnet."

Magnetic Portals Connect Sun and Earth

MaxwellEdison writes "Scientists have discovered evidence of magnetic portals connecting the Earth and the Sun every 8 minutes. 'Several speakers at the Workshop have outlined how FTEs form: On the dayside of Earth (the side closest to the sun), Earth's magnetic field presses against the sun's magnetic field. Approximately every eight minutes, the two fields briefly merge or "reconnect," forming a portal through which particles can flow. The portal takes the form of a magnetic cylinder about as wide as Earth. The European Space Agency's fleet of four Cluster spacecraft and NASA's five THEMIS probes have flown through and surrounded these cylinders, measuring their dimensions and sensing the particles that shoot through."

Medical development a work of art that may someday help repair nerve damage

Montreal scientists have developed a laser technique delicate enough to "paint" a picture just one-fifth of a millimetre wide. Some day, your nerves may thank them. Santiago Costantino and his colleagues created an image of the Vermeer painting Girl With a Pearl Earring, pictured, using a laser, but their final goal is medical. Wide as two human hairs, the miniature artwork illustrates the precision they can bring to another task: laying out a path that shows a damaged nerve how to reconnect. "When a nerve is cut, usually humans don't regrow, especially certain nerves like the optic nerve," Mr. Costantino said, noting one reason for this is that people have no way to tell the neurons that constitute these nerves how to find their targets again.

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