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Anna Kournikova (computer virus) Anna Kournikova (named Vbs.OnTheFly by its author, and also known as VBS/SST and VBS_Kalamar) [1] was a computer virus that spread worldwide on the Internet in February 2001. The virus program was contained in an email attachment, purportedly an image of tennis player Anna Kournikova .
The venue code (left) and digital sentry (right) used in Shanghai, China. The check-in code or the venue code ( Chinese: 场所 码, Chǎngsuǒgmǎ) is a QR code to record check-in locations for contact tracing and epidemiologic investigations. It was widely used in Australia and China during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–2022.
Koobface. Koobface is a network worm that attacks Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. [1] [2] [3] This worm originally targeted users of networking websites like Facebook, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, and email websites such as GMail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail. It also targets other networking websites, such as MySpace, Twitter, [4] and ...
In most cases, those QR codes still connect to some form of data to make them work, so even when boarding public transit, a user might be giving the transit agency that data. Sarah Kaufman from ...
The QR code system was invented in 1994, at the Denso Wave automotive products company, in Japan. The initial alternating-square design presented by the team of researchers, headed by Masahiro Hara, was influenced by the black counters and the white counters played on a Go board; the pattern of position detection was found and determined by applying the least-used ratio (1:1:3:1:1) in black ...
Traffic volume for Facebook services on October 4, 2021 with a drop during the global outage. On October 4, 2021, at 15:39 UTC, the social network Facebook and its subsidiaries, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Mapillary, and Oculus, became globally unavailable for a period of six to seven hours. [1] [2] [3] The outage also prevented anyone ...
Early computing. The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online ...
The code was introduced in 1994. In 2021, QR codes were being used to book and track COVID-19 tests and contact tracing. Hara has stated that he would like to develop QR codes for additional medical purposes, including imaging such as x-rays or electrocardiogram data. Hara still works for Denso as of 2022.