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Do Massive Stars Spawn Huge Black Holes?

(Dec. 8) -- The biggest black holes in the universe are also the most perplexing. Scientists have long been confused about just how the earliest, most massive black holes formed, but new evidence now suggests they could have originated inside giant cocoon-like stars. This idea is at odds with the prevailing thinking that...

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New trojan MusMinim-A written for Mac OS X

On Saturday, information security firm Sophos reported a new "backdoor Trojan" designed to allow remote operations and password "phishing" on systems running Mac OS X. The author of the Trojan refers to his or her work as " BlackHole RAT " and claims the malware is still in beta.

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02/08/12 2011 review: CNI targetted, spam down, botnets up Source: Infosecurity In its review of the latter half of 2011, M86 Labs notes that although spam is at its lowest level for several years, the amount of spam containing malicious attachments rose from less than 1.
10/14/11 Blackhole Crimeware Goes 'Prime Time' Source: FinanceTech (CMP) Most recently, one that poses as an email notification from an HP OfficeJet Printer has sent nearly 8 million emails thus far and uses 2,000 domains to serve up the malware.
05/23/11 BlackHole Exploit Kit Available for Free Source: Softpedia News FAfter the public release of the ZeuS source code a couple of weeks ago, another expensive piece of crimeware, the BlackHole exploit kit, is now available for free.
11/24/10 Discharge â Live In Preston Source: Strange Reaction I don't know when I got this one, or if it's a legit release or a bootleg.