A year ago Didier Stevens discovered that padding IE malware with 0x00 bytes would happily slip past most of the scanners in use at VirusTotal.com. Revisiting his earlier discovery , Didier found that detection on his initial samples had improved,

President-elect Barack Obama accepted congratulations from nine presidents and prime ministers, returning calls from world leaders who reached out after his presidential victory. The global financial crisis was among the topics Obama discussed with key US allies he'll deal with

An MoU for increasing bilateral cooperation in the field of academics was signed by the Mayor of Turin, Italy, Sergio Chiamparino and five universities of West Bengal here today. The cooperation in the fields of science, arts, culture, literature and

The Congress today officially announced the names of the candidates for the December two election to the 40-member Mizoram Assembly. The AICC secretary (North East) Maj Ved Prakash announced the names of the Congress candidates for 38 seats and said

MDMK chief Vaiko today accused the DMK government in Tamil Nadu of committing "a fraud" by seeking to send relief materials for the Sri Lankan Tamils, saying it had been supporting the UPA government which extended "help to the island

Elected representatives of panchayati raj institutions in Orissa's Ganjam district have demanded more financial and executive powers like MLAs and MPs. The government should make provision for local area development (LAD) funds for panchayat samiti chairpersons in line with MPLAD

I am a biomedical researcher interested in having general-purpose, scientific programs developed and released as open source. Interface design and reusability of the code are of primary importance to me. For my purpose, Cocoa applications relying on Core Data seem

Since the Vi version of this question was both interesting and popular, let's hear from the other end of the spectrum. What are your favorite tricks, macros, extensions, and techniques for any of the various Emacs ? Myself, I like

The Indian National Students Organisation (INSO) today demanded imposition of President's rule in Haryana and asked for a probe by a sitting high court judge into all fake encounters by police. A five member party delegation led by its state

All private and state buses in Himachal Pradesh have been barred from installing music players and the vehicles will be equipped with speed governors to check frequent accidents in the hill state, a minister said today. "With a view to

On the eve of international cancer day, Indira Gandhi Medical College (IGMC) here launched a month long statewide awareness campaign. This awareness campaign has been launched by the IGMC in collaboration with the community medicine department, the Principal of the

IBM and Sun joined at the 2008 OpenOffice.org conference in Beijing to announce the ODF Toolkit Union . The ODF Toolkit project will be independent of the development at OpenOffice.org, and will operate under the liberal Apache license . It

The oil-rich sultanate of Oman is all set to roll out the red carpet to welcome Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who comes here Saturday on the first leg of his two-nation visit. This is Manmohan Singh's first trip to

A Kolkata-based non-government organisation (NGO) was conferred with an Italian honour for its work among school children here. Kallol Ghosh, founder and chief executive officer of Organisation for Friends, Energies and Resources (OFFER), was given the "Knight of the Order

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Friday said the protest by a student organisation's member, who spat at a Delhi University professor during a campus seminar, could have been "more decent". "The party has taken note of the protest in the

India today said relations with Bhutan have reached a "new high" this year and hoped that the ties between the world s largest and newest democracies would become "deeper and more fruitful" in future. On the eve of her return

A district court in West Bengal Friday remanded three engineering students in 10 days of police custody, a day after they were arrested along with four others for violent clashes over elections to the students union. The seven students of

A local court today framed murder charges against dreaded criminal Sanjiv alias Jiwa in connection with the killing of a cable operator here. Additional District Judge Awivaram Singh framed the charges against the accused, who was brought from Azamgarh jail