Monthly Archives: Maggio 2018
Nethammer – Exploiting DRAM Rowhammer Bug Through Network Requests
Last week, we reported about the first network-based remote Rowhammer attack, dubbed Throwhammer, which involves the exploitation a known vulnerability in DRAM through network cards...
Securus firm that lets US Cops track cellphone users has been hacked
A couple of days ago the Dallas, Texas-based prison technology company Securus made headlines for assisting the Police in the United States to perform real-time cell phone tracking...
StalinLocker ransomware: Put unlock code or say goodbye to your data
Researchers have discovered a new ransomware that pays tribute to Joseph Stalin, the controversial leader of the Soviet Union in the 1940s and 1950s.
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A dirty bomb battles cancer metastasis
The death of her mother from ovarian cancer when Dr. Sui Huang was only 12 led to her lifelong scientific pursuit and a new...
GABA, GABA, GABA, what does it actually do in the brain?
Gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) is the primary inhibitory neurotransmitter in the brain. It is the control knob of all control knobs. But why GABA? What,...
Colon cancer cells use mysterious RNA strands to avoid cell death
Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered how unusually long strands of RNA help colon cancer cells avoid death, allowing...
Researchers take key step toward growing human organs in laboratory
Researchers have learned that precursor cells for skeletal muscles actually also give rise to neurons, blood vessels, blood cells and immune cells, pushing science...
Hypnosis transforms treatment for chronic pain
Researchers from UNSW Sydney and Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA), Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil and the University of Washington, US have identified a...
People make different moral choices in imagined versus real-life situations
Researchers often use hypothetical scenarios to understand how people grapple with moral quandaries, but experimental results suggest that these scenarios may not always reflect...
Sugars in infant formulas pose risk to babies with inherited metabolic disorder
Babies with inherited intolerance of fructose face a risk of acute liver failure if they are fed certain widely available formulas containing fructose, pediatricians...
New cytokine network can repair tissue damage in the intestine, study finds
A new group of proteins called cytokines, critical for antimicrobial activity and repairing the damaged intestinal tissue found in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), has...
Why chikungunya, other arthritis-causing viruses target joints
Chikungunya virus is a growing threat to the United States and other regions of the world as the mosquito that carries the virus expands...
New device could increase battery life of electronics by a hundred-fold
Among the chief complaints for smartphone, laptop and other battery-operated electronics users is that the battery life is too short and -- in some...
According to researchers, the adult brain may be sensitive to social and economic factors
Research has shown that a developing child’s brain structure and function can be adversely affected when the child is raised in an environment lacking...
Researchers have identified a genetic overlap between rheumatoid arthritis and Huntington’s disease
Using new analytic tools, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have...
