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FBI, others crush REvil using ransomware gang’s favorite tactic against it

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Four days ago, the REvil ransomware gang’s leak site, known as the “Happy Blog, ” went offline. Cybersecurity experts wondered aloud what might have caused the infamous group to go dark once more. One theory was that it was an inside job pulled by the particular group’s disaffected former leader. Another […]

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America Requires a National Guard for scientists

All of them have their roots in disasters, Which Range from the Great Depression and the Second World War to the Cold War and also 9/11. Crises have constantly been catalysts for institutional renewal and reinvention, along with the coronavirus pandemic will not be any exception. But now, when we all could see is emergency […]

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Iran behind Assumed”Proud Boys” voter-intimidation Mails, Feds allege

Expand / FBI Director Chrisopher Wray talking at a media conference in Washington, DC, on October 7. (charge: Jim Watson | AFP | Bloomberg | Getty Images) We have less than fourteen days to go before the national voting deadline to the elections on November 3, and essentially what is, as most anticipated, hitting the […]

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Russia’s Fancy Bear hackers Probably penetrated a National agency

Expand / / SONY DSC (charge: Boris SV | Getty Images) A warning which anonymous hackers broke in a service of the US {} and stole its own information is upsetting enough. Nonetheless, it becomes even more upsetting when those unknown bugs are recognized –and seem likely to become a part of a infamous group […]

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Senator asks DHS if foreign-controlled browser extensions threaten the US

Enlarge / Photo illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images (credit: Getty Images) A US senator is calling on the Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity arm to assess the threat posed by browser extensions made in countries known to conduct espionage against the US. “I am concerned that the use by millions of Americans of […]

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Judge May rule by midnight tonight in Case TikTok can Remain in app Shops

Expand (credit: Getty Images) TikTok is going to probably be gone from program shops tomorrow unless a national judge acts to obstruct the Trump government’s ban on the program before midnight. Judge Carl Nichols of the US District Court for DC said now {} decide whether to reject or grant TikTok’s petition for an injunction […]

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Oracle’s TikTok non-acquisition seeks Treasury, White House approval

Enlarge / The TikTok logo displayed on a smartphone, with logo of parent company ByteDance in the background. (credit: Sheldon Coope | SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images) President Donald Trump spent several months pushing to have TikTok banned or sold to a US firm. He seems to have gotten his way, as Oracle […]