Chikungunya virus may cause brain infection
Chikungunya, a mosquito-borne virus, can lead to severe brain infection and even death in infants and people over 65, a study says.
Nov 30, 2015, 18:30 PM IST
Ways to combat those pesky everyday germs!
Get rid of those awful germs with these simple tips!
Nov 22, 2015, 06:22 AM IST
Person-to-person bird flu transmission scare
You may want to remain alert for bird flu as a new study has provided an evidence of probable transmission of the avian influenza virus between two unrelated individuals.
Nov 19, 2015, 10:11 AM IST
Could 2016 see the first cyber attacks on wearables?
The only way to protect a computer from ransomware is to make sure it is fully up to date in terms of virus protection and software patches
Nov 13, 2015, 09:01 AM IST
Monkeys in Asia harbouring virus from humans
Researchers have found that monkeys which commonly dwell with people in Asia can harbour variants of a type of virus which can cause infectious gastroenteritis or diarrhoea in humans.
Nov 06, 2015, 11:24 AM IST
Viruses are actually living entities
Viruses are living entities that share a long evolutionary history with cells, says a new study that traces viral evolution back to a time when neither viruses nor cells existed in the forms recognised today.
Sep 27, 2015, 16:13 PM IST
Malware infection hits Apple's App Store
Computing giant Apple said Monday it has removed software from its App Store, after reports said hundreds of apps including some of China's most popular were infected with malware.
Sep 21, 2015, 19:00 PM IST
Why second dengue infection can be life-threatening
A second dengue infection can be life-threatening, new research shows.
Sep 18, 2015, 14:11 PM IST
30,000-year-old 'giant virus' discovered in Siberian wilderness
Scientists have discovered a 30,000-year-old prehistoric virus in deep underground in the frozen wilderness of north-eastern Siberia.
Sep 10, 2015, 17:39 PM IST
Stagefright, a virus that makes your Android devices spy on you
In what could be termed as the single largest security update for mobile phones in history, Google will be patching bugs for Android called 'Stagefright'.
Aug 07, 2015, 18:32 PM IST
Google splurged $1.5 million on bug finders in 2014
Google reportedly splurged a whopping 1.5 million dollars as awards to security researchers who pointed out flaws in its open-source programmes last year.
Jan 31, 2015, 15:54 PM IST
Hacking virus 'Bladabindi' prowling in Indian cyberspace
The virus possesses a unique ability to acquire a safe network domain id in order to falsely add itself to the firewall exclusion list and bypass a user's firewall mechanism.
Jul 24, 2014, 11:55 AM IST
