Two men have been arrested for allegedly sending virus infection alerts purporting to be from Google Inc. and deceiving recipients into paying for antivirus software, police said Wednesday. Shin Sato, 35, and Naoki Yamamoto, 52, were arrested Monday on suspicion of sending the alerts via ...
A 14-year-old fame seeker in Osaka is taken into custody for allegedly making ransomware, becoming the first person to Japan to receive the dubious honor.
The deepening integration of information technologies into all facets of daily life has created dangerous vulnerabilities that need to be addressed.
More than 1.3 million internet-connected devices around the world, including personal video recorders and security cameras, have been infected with computer viruses, according to a recent study by a group of Japanese researchers. The devices concerned, which form part of the so-called internet of things, ...
An employee in a high-level Canadian laboratory may have been accidentally exposed to Ebola on Monday while working with pigs that were infected with the virus as part of an experiment, government officials said on Tuesday. The employee noticed a split in the seam of ...
Thailand is considering testing all pregnant women for Zika, the health ministry said on Monday, following confirmation last week of its first known cases of microcephaly, a birth defect marked by small head size and linked to the Zika virus. The two confirmed cases of ...
Thai health authorities on Friday said microcephaly in two babies was caused by the Zika virus, in what is believed to be Southeast Asia's first confirmed cases linking the sickness and the birth defect. The announcement could affect Thailand's key tourism industry, one the kingdom's ...
The Thai Health Ministry has confirmed 21 locally transmitted cases of Zika infection in central Bangkok, local media reported Sunday. According to the Japanese Embassy, no Japanese are among the cases, which were all recorded in the capital's Sathorn District, where many office complexes are ...
Another Zika infection has been diagnosed in a man who just got back from Latin America, marking the nation's seventh confirmed case of the mosquito-borne virus this year, the health ministry said Friday. The man, described as an Osaka resident in his 30s, returned to ...
The Republican-controlled Congress is ready to act on President Barack Obama's long-stalled request for emergency funds to combat the Zika virus, which has been linked to serious birth defects and other major health problems. Obama requested $1.9 billion three months ago for several purposes, including ...
A Connecticut teenager says she was shocked she tested positive for the Zika virus after learning she was pregnant. Sara Mujica, 17, of Danbury said she found out she was pregnant in March while she was visiting Victor Cruz, her fiance and the baby's father, ...
A study in Brazil found nearly 90 percent of people with a rare paralyzing condition said they had symptoms of Zika earlier — contributing to mounting evidence that Zika may be a cause. But there are caveats: It's a small study, and investigators don't yet ...
