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Europe dust storm warning

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Every year in the Spring, dust from the Sahara Desert is swept up by the winds and brought all the way to Europe across the Mediterranean Sea. From the Saharan hinterland and in the bed of these hot winds directed towards Europe, large quantities of desert dust will travel which will be concentrated in suspension at the highest altitudes of the atmosphere ready to reach after a small long journey, European geological part. What happens? The difference between zones of high and low pressure together with southerly winds swept another round of Saharan dust to Europe. At this time of year in Europe, you may have noticed something in the air. Dust-laden winds blowing from the Sahara desert may be a cause of “seasonal haze episodes.

THE TOP 10 LARGEST PLANETARY MOONS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

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THE TOP 10 LARGEST PLANETARY MOONS IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM At 5,262 kilometers in diameter, Jupiter's Ganymede is the largest moon in our solar system. Titan orbits Saturn and is the second-largest moon with a diameter of 5,150 km. Callisto is the moon that orbit planet Jupiter and the third-largest moon among all. Io moon also orbits around planet Jupiter and has a diameter of 3,643 km. It is the fourth-largest moon and was discovered by 1610 by Galileo Galilei. At five-place the Earth’s Moon (3,475km), At six place Jupiter's Europa (3,122km) At seven place Neptune's Triton (2,707km), Titania, Uranus 8 place – Diameter: 1,578 km (980 miles). The largest of Uranus’s many moons, Titania was discovered by William Herschel in 1787 and it said to have a ‘snowball’ like the surface of the ice. Saturn's second-largest moon is the ninth-largest (1,529km) Ten of place Uranus's Oberon (1,523km). Oberon is the King of the Fairies and husband of Titania i

The evolution of phishing email messages.

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April 12th is the anniversary of the first large scale commercial spam – the infamous “Green Card Lawyers” message that was posted to every newsgroup on Usenet News (right). Though there were attempts at spamming starting as early as 1978, Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to steal information by social engineering: the act of criminal deception. A phishing technique was described in detail in a paper and presentation delivered to the 1987 International HP Users Group, Interex. The earliest phishing cases beginning, as fake emails were pretty easy to detect. Starting in the ‘90s, phishing attackers targeted the AOL users but today, threat Protection services, provide dynamic, robust protection against email threats. The service traces its history to an online service known as PlayNET, which hosted multi-player games for the Commodore 64. PlayNET licensed their software to a new service, Quantum Link (Q-Link), who went online in November 1985. PlayNET shut down shortly thereafter. T