(n.) Any one of numerous species of annelids which burrow in the sand of the seashore.
(n.) Any species of annelids of the genus Sabellaria. They construct firm tubes of agglutinated sand on rocks and shells, and are sometimes destructive to oysters.
(n.) The chigoe, a species of flea.
Example Sentences:
(1) The three-dimensional structure of a sarcoplasmic Ca2(+)-binding protein from the sandworm Nereis diversicolor has been determined at 3.0 A resolution using multiple isomorphous replacement techniques.
(2) There is no clear evidence the latest flaw is being used by the same Sandworm hacker crew.
(3) Cyber intelligence firm iSight Partners warned last week that a separate but similar bug was being used in so-called ‘Sandworm’ attacks against the Ukrainian government, the European Union, Nato, French telecom firms and Polish energy suppliers.
(4) In particular, the Sandworm Team reportedly infected targets with malicious email attachments, largely PowerPoint files.
(5) The Dune references were so prevalent that iSight dubbed the hackers the “Sandworm Team” in reference to the huge creatures worshipped as gods on a desert planet where the series is set.
(6) The crystal structure of a sarcoplasmic Ca(2+)-binding protein (SCP) from the sandworm Nereis diversicolor has been determined and refined at 2.0 A resolution using restrained least-squares techniques.
(7) A group of hackers iSight called the Sandworm Team reportedly exploited this and other vulnerabilities from 2009 to steal diplomatic and intelligence documents, as well as data that could be used to penetrate further systems.
(8) The purified substance was highly active as an alarm chemosignal to earthworms (L. terrestris), but it did not elicit alarm responses from either sandworms (Nereis virens) or bloodworms (Glycera debranciata).
(9) We have determined the amino acid sequence of the SCBP from the sandworm Nereis diversicolor.
(10) This month, cyber-intelligence firm iSight Partners revealed that Russian hackers had exploited a bug in Microsoft Windows to spy on Nato computers in a five-year hacking campaign dubbed Sandworm , which also targeted Ukrainian computers.
(11) But Andrei Soldatov, a journalist and expert on Russia’s security services, said the available information was too sparse to definitively attribute the Sandworm campaign to the Russian government or conclude that Russian cyber-espionage was on the rise.
(12) Apparently the patch that Microsoft released for the Sandworm vulnerability didn’t properly patch it and this new vulnerability exploits that,” he said.
(13) ISight said the Sandworm Team’s campaign was part of a “growing drumbeat of cyber-espionage activity out of Russia”.
(14) The sarcoplasmic calcium-binding protein (SCP) of the sandworm Nereis possesses three Ca2(+)-Mg2+ sites but no Ca2(+)-specific site.