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Your Feces Is a Wonderland of Viruses 211

Posted by timothy from the and-so-can-you dept.
sciencehabit writes "Thanks to an anlaysis of fecal samples from four sets of Missouri-born female identical twins and their mothers, researchers have concluded that human guts harbor viruses as unique as the people they inhabit; the viral lineup differs even between identical twins. Even more surprising? These viruses may be doing good work inside of us."
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Zombie Macs Launch DoS Attack 757

Posted by timothy from the but-wait-you-told-me dept.
Cludge writes "ZDNet has a story (and several related articles) about how Symantec has discovered evidence of an all-Mac based botnet that is actively involved in a DOS attack. Apparently, security on the exploited Macs (call them iBots?) was compromised when unwary users bit-torrented pirated copies of iWork 09 and Photoshop CS4 that contained malware. From the article: 'They describe this as the "first real attempt to create a Mac botnet" and note that the zombie Macs are already being used for nefarious purposes.'"

Comment It's 5 machines now (Score 1) 621

by sjdownes (#9119450) Attached to: FairPlay v2 Reversed, Playfair Back Online
The limit was bumped up to 5 machines recently. That helps a little bit.

It would be nice though if Apple let you deauthorize a machine from their web site. People will forget to deauthorize machines before they sell them. It would be a lot easier to deauthorize via the web rather than requiring that you contact Apple.

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