A computer worm, using many months ago in the Windows Server service, infected more than a million PCs in 24 hours, the Hacker reports. On Wednesday morning, the Finnish company F-Secure estimated the total number of 3.5 million computer-infected Downadup worms, while clarifying that this number has increased by 1.1 million PCs since Tuesday. And, as the F-Secure researcher Sean Sullivan explains on the company's blog, this assessment is very restrained.

Somali pirates liberated the Danish ship CEC FUTURE, on board the Danish vessel of which there are 13 people, including 11 Russians. According to the Sudger company on Friday, this was done after the pirates received a ransom. "The last pirates left the ship early on Thursday morning. We reached an agreement with criminals in the evening on Monday," said Clipper Projects Pen Gullestrup.

Last week, a parking lot worth more than 2 million rubles (more than 62 thousand dollars) was sold in Moscow in Moscow, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the specialized state unitary enterprise for the sale of property of the city of Moscow Vladimir Averal. “Last week, as well as from the beginning of the year, we have been noted an increased demand for parking lots. Up to 10 people claim separate parking lots,” said Averal.

95% of music distributed online is downloaded illegally. Such a statement, as reported by the BBC , is contained in the latest report of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI). The organization calls the current situation the main problem that has faced performers and record companies in recent years, who are rapidly losing their income.

The founder and publisher of The New Times, Irena Lesnevskaya, took off the functions of the chief editor and handed them to her deputy Evgenia Albats. About this, as Interfax reports, a source in the journal said, and then she confirmed Lesnevskaya herself. “I consider this to be a natural course of events. Evgeny Albats is a brilliant journalist, motor and heart of the magazine, it charges it with its energy and talent.

The metropolitan police and the FSB investigated the murder of a citizen of Armenia committed by three military military military. The attackers scored the victim with a brand and strangled during his stay in the School. Last Thursday, the materials of the criminal case were sent to the military prosecutor's office of the city of Moscow. All three suspects were arrested and confessed, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement.

The dollar and the euro continue to update the maximums, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation is weakening the ruble to the bivalyut basket for the third consecutive day. Trading the MICEX on the dollar with “Tomorrow” calculations began with a transaction at the level of 32.7 rubles per dollar. In the next 2-3 minutes, the dollar retreated to the levels of 32.5-32.55 rubles per dollar, the Finmarket reports.

In the Ukrainian Church (UOC -MP) there are no attempts to separate from the Moscow Patriarchate on the eve of the Local Council, assured the head of its department of external church ties Archimandrite Kirill (Govorun). “In no case! This is all the politicization of the process, the completely wrong information that is distributed to destabilize the situation,” he told the Interfax -religion portal today.

The Ukrainian police detained a "sentimental" robber in Kyiv, who decided to robbing from a desire to make a mother a birthday present. The presented mother was a kidnapped mobile phone and a bouquet bought for "trophy" money. Law enforcers of the Obolonsky district police department in the city of Kiev detained a 25-year-old drug addict, who is suspected of robbing a round-the-clock store, reports My Misto with reference to the press service of the Kiev police.

Internet users in the near future will be able to visit the virtual Great Chinese wall, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Chinese media. According to the State Administration of Geodesy and Cartography, work on the collection of materials and photographing the surviving wall segments in nine provinces and autonomous areas in the north of China is currently being completed.

The debt of NAC "Naftogaz Ukraine" to Rosukrenergo is currently $ 650 million, the co -owner of the Swiss gas transmission Dmitry Firtash said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio. According to Firtash, payments have arisen since March last year, when the joint venture of Rosukrenergo and Naftogaz of Ukraine - Ukrgazenergo was excluded from the supply scheme.

In the covered market in the Frunze district of St. Petersburg there was a fire, reports Fontanka.ru . According to eyewitnesses, at least two stalls burn on the corner of Yaroslav Gashek and Kupchinskaya. Smoke creeps throughout the roof of the market. According to the press service of the Ministry of Emergencies in St. Petersburg, the fire in trading pavilions began at about 17 hours, at 17:12 he was assigned an increased number 1- "BIS". The ignition area is about 150 square meters.

The Prime Minister of Latvia Ivars Godmanis may resign. He is ready to leave his post if this helps to improve the situation in the country, Godmanis himself said after a meeting with President Valdis Zatles on Friday. On Monday, the Prime Minister will inform what decision made. On Tuesday in Riga, mass riots began, which became the reaction of the population to the government’s anti -crisis plan. On Wednesday, the Prime Minister promised to severely punish participants in the riots.

The authorities of Latvia and Lithuania, where in recent days social unrest flashed , take unpopular, but correct measures in the fight against the economic crisis. With such an assessment of the situation in the Baltic states on the waves of "Echo of Moscow", the economic observer of Newsru.com Maxim Blant spoke.

The Constitutional Court of Peru ruled that the district administration of Chorillos did not have the right to dismiss a janitor who appeared in a lot of intoxications, since he was "able to talk and write" and did not harm anyone. In connection with this circumstance, the court considered the employer's measures overly. In addition, the court ordered a woman to be restored at work, dismissed for drunkenness in 2004.