Tesla stays ahead of the pack with new European plant

Android barcode scanner with 10 million+ downloads infects users

Enlarge (credit: portal gda / Flickr) A benign barcode scanner with more than 10 million downloads from Google Play has been caught receiving an upgrade that turned it to the dark side, prompting the search and advertising giant to remove it. Barcode Scanner, one of dozens of such apps available in the official Google app […]

Kaseya gets master decryptor to help customers still suffering from REvil attack

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Kaseya—the remote management software seller at the center of a ransomware operation that struck as many as 1, 500 downstream networks—said it has obtained a decryptor that should successfully restore data encrypted during the Fourth of July weekend attack. Affiliates of REvil, one of the Internet’s most cutthroat ransomware groups, […]

SARS-CoV-2’s spread to wild mink not a reason to Fear

Expand (charge: Eric Sonstroem / Flickr) Did anybody have”mink farms” in their 2020 disaster bingo cards? It ends up the SARS-CoV-2 virus easily spreads into mink, resulting in outbreaks on mink farms at Europe along with that the United States. Denmark reacted by culling its whole mink people, which obviously went wrong because mink bodies […]