Updated: 1:16 PM The Obama administration's budget slashes funding for a plutonium reprocessing project in South Carolina and questions the viability of the multi-billion-dollar effort.
Updated: 7:13 PM Hitchcock Woods in Aiken is one of the largest urban forests in the country, and even though it's privately owned, anyone can hike, walk a dog, or ride a horse there. But there's a problem that's been around for a while. Stormwater runoff is causing parts of the park to crumble away.
Posted: 7:05 PM Apple is set for a possible summer launch of the next iPhone, rather than a fall launch like the last two models, according to a report Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal.
Posted: 2:33 PM A NASA spokesman says something went wrong this morning during a computer software update on the station. The outpost abruptly lost all communication with Houston.
Posted: 4:42 PM Burger King hasn't really been sold to McDonald's, despite what it says on Burger King's Twitter feed today.
Posted: 12:01 PM David Willis, Steven Creek Community Church's teaching pastor, had his marriage-dedicated Facebook page hacked.
Posted: 3:00 PM The megarock will pass within 17,000 miles of the planet -- the closest known approach ever for an object of this size. But NASA scientists said Thursday there's no reason to worry.
Updated: 1:52 AM If you watched the big game on a new Samsung Smart TV, there is a possibility that your TV could be watching you!
Updated: 11:41 AM "FBI" virus hitting people in the CSRA.
Updated: 12:18 PM Apple Inc.'s stock has been falling since an earnings report on Wednesday. It fell another 1.8 percent on Friday to $442.60 for a market capitalization of $415.6 billion.
Updated: 2:22 PM The phone giant is pushing "It Can Wait" campaign in school. Now the company is taking another step towards preventing texting and driving in form of an app.
Updated: 8:23 PM If you've been holding onto your old computer because you're worried about polluting the environment or risking your personal information, the wait is over.
Posted: 5:52 PM At issue is whether users' photos can be part of advertisements, on and off Instagram. The mobile photo-sharing company said in a blog post Tuesday that it has no plans to put users' photos in advertisements.
Updated: 9:14 PM No more face-to-face visits for inmates at the jail, but officials say it's all about safety. News 12 got an inside look at the Aiken County Detention Center where webcams are becoming the trend.
Updated: 7:59 PM If you do "like" something, make sure it isn't spam. All you have to do is hold your mouse of the posts and check out the web address that pops up at the bottom of your screen.
Kaspersky Lab warns users about the emergence online of a new version of the Gpcode ransomware program.
The program spreads via malicious websites and P2P networks.
Kaspersky Lab products detect the program as Trojan-Ransom.Win32.Gpcode.ax.
You can read more on our blog.
Kaspersky Lab is monitoring a new email worm which is currently spreading. Emails spreading the worm say “Here you have” in the subject line.
We detect the worm as Email-Worm.Win32.VBMania.
While the servers hosting related downloads have been taken down, we are keeping customers updated and protected against any new variants.
Net-Worm.Win32.Kido exploits a critical vulnerability (MS08-067) in Microsoft Windows to spread via local networks and removable storage media.
The worm disables system restore, blocks access to security websites, and downloads additional malware to infected machines.
Users are strongly recommended to ensure their antivirus databases are up to date. A patch for the vulnerability is available from Microsoft.
Detailed descriptions of Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.bt, Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.dv and Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.fx are available in the Virus Encyclopaedia. A dedicated removal tool is available here.
The new Gpcode variant encrypts files with extensions DOC, TXT, PDF, XLS, JPG, PNG, CPP, H etc. on hard drives using an RSA algorithm with a 1024-bit key.
After encrypting files, the virus leaves a text file in the folder next to the encrypted files with following message:
Currently, we detect the new variant, but we are unable to crack the 1024-bit key. Our analysts are continuing to work on both the key and the virus to resolve this issue.
Kaspersky Lab recommends that all Internet users enable maximum protection from malicious code and network attacks on their computers, refrain from executing suspicious programs received from untrustworthy sources and back up any important information on their computers.
Detection of Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak was added to Kaspersky Anti-Virus signature databases yesterday, on June 4th, at 15:39 GMT. Please make sure to update if you haven’t already.
If you have fallen victim to Gpcode.ak, try to contact us using another computer connected to the Internet. DO NOT RESTART or POWER DOWN the potentially infected machine. Contact us by email stopgpcode@kaspersky.com and tell us the exact date and time of infection, as well everything you did on the computer in the 5 minutes before the machine was infected: which programs you have executed, which websites you have visited, etc. We'll try and help you recover any data that has been encrypted.
For more information about the malicious program, please read our weblog.
A few hours before this point, there was a noticeable increase in mail traffic of an earlier modification of Warezov - Warezov.do which featured in the October 2006 Top 20.
If you are using Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0 or Kaspersky Internet Security 6.0 with Proactive Protection turned on, new variants will be detected without the need to update your antivirus databases.
A full description of Email-Worm.Win32.Warezov.nf is now available in the Virus Encyclopaedia.