Nor is it clear the attacks are over: Some specialists who have examined the code believe it contains the seeds for yet more versions and assaults. Officially, neither American nor Israeli officials will even utter the name of the malicious computer …
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Microsoft to Announce New Slates Targeting the iPad — A decade ago Bill Gates, founder and former chief executive of Microsoft, presented a new class of computing to the world: a Tablet PC that offered a fully functional computer with the “intuitive aspects of pencil and paper.”
Davidson suspected his computer was infected with a virus and was concerned … they began to hatch an elaborate scheme alleging various security threats against not only Davidson and his family but the U.S. government, the district attorney’s office …
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WASHINGTON — Computer hackers have begun targeting power plants and other critical operations around the world in bold new efforts to seize control of them, setting off a scramble to shore up aging …
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