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There is no doubt that data breaches are on the rise. Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. According to the latest 'Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2016' report published by UK government, two-thirds of the biggest firm in the UK have experienced at least a cyber attacks or data breach...
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Cyber criminals have exploited the power of two online advertising networks, Google's DoubleClick and popular Zedo advertising agency, to deliver malicious advertisements to millions of internet users that could install malware on a user's computer. A recent report published by the researcher of the security vendor Ma...
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Salisbury, England (CNN)Welcome to the city of Salisbury, where local market traders sell fresh organic vegetables, amid nervous talk of chemical weapons, and men in protective suits and gas masks walk in and out of the local pub. It wasn't always like this, of course. But in the wake of the attempted murder last week ...
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In Brief Microsoft has issued its first Patch Tuesday for 2017, and it's one of the smallest ever monthly patch releases for the company, with only four security updates to address vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system as well as Adobe Flash Player. Meanwhile, Adobe has also released patches for more than th...
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Story highlightsThe No.3 seed beats Czech Republic's Tomas Berdych in four sets Olympic champion Murray through to his second U.S. Open final Scot will play either Novak Djokovic or Spain's David Ferrer in the final Scotland's Andy Murray is through to his second U.S. Open final after beating Tomas Berdych of the Czech...
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If you receive a mail masquerading as a company's invoice and containing a Microsoft Word file, think twice before clicking on it. Doing so could cripple your system and could lead to a catastrophic destruction. Hackers are believed to be carrying out social engineering hoaxes by adopting eye-catching subjects in the...
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Story highlightsArgentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman dies mysteriously while investigating 1994 attackSuspicions arose that death was tied to allegations against Argentine's President, other leaders (CNN)Everyone agrees -- the mysterious death of Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman has all the twists of a thriller. But ...
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(CNN)NFL officials were notified by Las Vegas police just before the Pro Bowl that New Orleans Saints running back Alvin Kamara was a suspect in a battery investigation, but officers said they would question him after the game, Commissioner Roger Goodell said Wednesday.Kamara played in the Pro Bowl on Sunday and was i...
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Another day, another creepy malware for Android users! Security Researchers have uncovered a new Android malware targeting your devices, but this time instead of attacking the device directly, the malware takes control over the WiFi router to which your device is connected to and then hijacks the web traffic passing t...
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Yesterday, on the 3rd anniversary of the infamous global WannaCry ransomware outbreak for which North Korea was blamed, the U.S. government released information about three new malware strains used by state-sponsored North Korean hackers. Called COPPERHEDGE, TAINTEDSCRIBE, and PEBBLEDASH, the malware variants are capa...
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Oh Microsoft, How could you do this to your own Internet Explorer? Microsoft had kept hidden a critical Zero-Day vulnerability of Internet explorer 8 from all of us, since October 2013. A Critical zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability (CVE-2014-1770), which was discovered by Peter 'corelanc0d3r' Van Eeckhoutte in O...
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A new set of critical vulnerabilities has been disclosed in the Realtek RTL8170C Wi-Fi module that an adversary could abuse to gain elevated privileges on a device and hijack wireless communications. "Successful exploitation would lead to complete control of the Wi-Fi module and potential root access on the OS (such as...
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A malicious program intended to cause havoc with IT systems—malware—is becoming more and more sophisticated every year. The year 2021 is no exception, as recent trends indicate that several new variants of malware are making their way into the world of cybersecurity. While smarter security solutions are popping up, mod...
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Basingstoke, England (CNN)Last May, Steve Bates' phone rang. The UK was in the midst of its first national lockdown -- there was a stay-at-home order, schools and most shops were closed, and experts were warning that a vaccine could still be years out. At the other end of the line was an old friend, Kate Bingham, a pha...
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(CNN)Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers confirmed he is unvaccinated against Covid-19 and is disappointed with the treatment he's been receiving in the media while appearing on The Pat McAfee Show on Friday."I realize I'm in the crosshairs of the woke mob right now," Rodgers said. "So, before my final na...
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Story highlightsFour killed in stampede at football matchMontagua president blames fake tickets (CNN)It should have been a day of celebration as Motagua were crowned champions in Honduras, but instead it was marred by tragedy.According to Honduras' national police, four people were killed and several injured in a stamp...
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Spain (CNN)Around 300,000 nonessential workers are estimated to have gone back to their jobs in Spain's Madrid region on Monday as the country began a partial lifting of lockdown restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus, a spokesperson for Madrid's regional government told CNN. As Spain enters its second...
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The CryptoLocker Malware continues to spread, infected more than 12,000 U.S computers in one week and threatening millions of computers in the UK. Just last week, The UK National Crime Agency urge people afflicted by CryptoLocker not to pay ransom, not least because there is no guarantee that they will even receive an...
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Cybersecurity researchers on Monday tied a string of attacks targeting Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA) servers over the past two months to data theft and extortion campaign orchestrated by a cybercrime group called UNC2546. The attacks, which began in mid-December 2020, involved exploiting multiple zero-day vul...
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Own an Android smartphone? Beware, as just an innocuous-looking image on social media or messaging app could compromise your smartphone. Along with the dangerous Quadrooter vulnerabilities that affected 900 Million devices and other previously disclosed issues, Google has patched a previously-unknown critical bug that...
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Online guitar tutoring website TrueFire has apparently suffered a 'Magecart' style data breach incident that may have potentially led to the exposure of its customers' personal information and payment card information. TrueFire is one of the popular guitar tutoring websites with over 1 million users, where wanna-be-gu...
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(CNN)Edinson Cavani is apologizing for language he used in a social media post after he scored two goals for Manchester United in its Premier League match against Southampton on Sunday.The Uruguayan thanked a follower using the phrase "gracias negrito," which translates to thank you, little Black one. The phrase is se...
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The United States government has released a rare alert about an ongoing, eight-year-long North Korean state-sponsored hacking operation. The joint report from the FBI and U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) provided details on "DeltaCharlie," a malware variant used by "Hidden Cobra" hacking group to infect hund...
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According to release announcement on Pastebin by unknown developers in a Russian-language BlackHole Exploit Kit 2.0 released with more latest Exploits. BlackHole is one of the most dominant exploit toolkits currently available in the underground market. It enables attackers to exploit security holes in order to install...
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(CNN)Think everyone's working from home as the novel coronavirus spreads? Think again, a new report argues."There's a lot of misinformation about how much people are able to telework. It's actually quite a small share of the workforce. ... The vast majority of people can't," says Heidi Shierholz, senior economist and ...
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Story highlightsCredit rating agency Moody's has downgraded 16 Spanish banksThe government denied rumors of a run on the Spanish bank Bankia on ThursdayMarket confidence has been dented by continuing political uncertainty in GreeceSpain has seen its borrowing costs rise amid concern it could fall victim to the debt cri...
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Today I desire to propose an interview with Andrey Komarov, CEO of IntelCrawler and Dan Clements, President of IntelCrawler. IntelCrawler is a multi-tier intelligence aggregator, which gathers information and cyber prints from a starting big data pool of over 3, 000, 000, 000 IPv4 and over 200, 000, 000 domain names, w...
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Story highlightsPeople on a sliver of land caught in a Soviet time warp long to be part of RussiaTransnistria is part of Moldova and an unrecognized self-declared countryThey see Russia as a protecting force and a place to work and tradeOne woman explains if the Russian military arrived people would cheerThe previous n...
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(CNN)There's no silver bullet to the climate crisis, but nuclear fusion may be the closest thing to it. In the quest for a near-limitless, zero-carbon source of reliable power, scientists have generated fusion energy before, but they have struggled for decades to sustain it for very long. On Wednesday, however, scient...
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(CNN)Jim Radford was only 15 when he served as a ship's galley boy on June 6, 1944, making him the youngest known D-Day veteran.On that fateful day, he helped build the Mulberry harbor at Gold Beach, which allowed the British Royal Navy to get personnel, vehicles and supplies onto the beaches of France.Seventy-five ye...
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Story highlightsAtletico Madrid go top of La Liga after Diego Costa's goal helps them beat GranadaReal Madrid lose at Sevilla to slip to third in the table behind BarcelonaBarca thrash Celta Vigo 3-0 thanks to a brace from Brazilian striker Neymar Liverpool beat Sunderland to keep their English Premier League title dre...
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A new surge of malware has been discovered which goes on to infect hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide and allegedly steals users' social and banking site credentials. Few days back, a list of 5 million combinations of Gmail addresses and passwords were leaked online. The search engine giant, Google said that...
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Story highlightsMohammed Merah was killed March 22 by policeHe had been sought in connection with 7 killingsThe father says police could have captured his son alive The father of Mohammed Merah filed a lawsuit Monday here alleging murder in the killing by police of his son in March in southern France, the father's lawy...
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Security researchers have been warning about a simple technique that cyber criminals and email scammers are using in the wild to bypass most AI-powered phishing detection mechanisms implemented by widely used email services and web security scanners. Dubbed ZeroFont, the technique involves inserting hidden words with ...
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Story highlightsMohamed Al Fayed sells soccer's Fulham to billionaire N.F.L. owner Shahid Khan Although the selling price wasn't revealed, reports suggest it was around $230 million The Cottagers cemented their place in England's top division under Al FayedKhan moved to the U.S. at the age of 16 and turned himself into...
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A hacker who was selling details of nearly 890 million online accounts stolen from 32 popular websites in three separate rounds has now put up a fourth batch of millions of records originating from 6 other sites for sale on the dark web. The Hacker News today received a new email from the Pakistani hacker, who goes by...
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Story highlightsSteven Bowditch wins the Valero Texas Open to qualify for the Masters for the first timeThe Australian claimed a winner's check, the first of his career, for $1.2 millionBowditch has long battled depression and attempted to take his own in 2006He is now a spokesperson for Australian non-profit organizat...
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DarkSide, the hacker group behind the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack earlier this month, received $90 million in bitcoin payments following a nine-month ransomware spree, making it one of the most profitable cybercrime groups. "In total, just over $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments were made to DarkSide, origi...
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Exploitation of Rowhammer attack just got easier. Dubbed 'Throwhammer,' the newly discovered technique could allow attackers to launch Rowhammer attack on the targeted systems just by sending specially crafted packets to the vulnerable network cards over the local area network. Known since 2012, Rowhammer is a severe...
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Point-of-sale (POS) is the hottest topic in payment structures and its one of the most popular technology topics as well. A Point-of-sale (POS) machine is a computerized replacement for a cash register. It has ability to quickly process a customer's transaction, accurately keep the records, process credit and debit car...
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Son of a Baptist Minister, 28-year-old British man named Lauri Love has been charged with hacking into the computer systems of the US army, NASA and other federal agencies. He was arrested Friday at his home in Stradishall, England by the National Crime Agency and according to the indictment alleges Love and his unnam...
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London (CNN)UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn has set out his plan to stop Boris Johnson from leading the country into what many fear could be a catastrophic 'no-deal' Brexit.The Labour Party leader has announced he will begin consideration of a vote of no confidence in Johnson's government "at the earliest opportunit...
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London (CNN)Belgian footballer Vincent Kompany has said he will leave Manchester City, just one day after Saturday's 6-0 FA Cup final win over Watford. "The defender has decided to call time on his 11-year association with the Club having won four Premier League titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups and two Community S...
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Story highlights Kerry and Lavrov discuss the situation in eastern Ukraine in two phone conversationsU.S. ambassador tweets pictures he says show Russian buildup"We are always vigilant," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says of Russia's movesUkraine's acting interior minister says unrest in eastern region will be resolved...
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(CNN)As the coronavirus pandemic spreads across Europe and the United States, a global scramble for medical equipment such as respirator masks and gloves is underway. Several countries have accused the United States of trying to hijack their orders, but the details of who may have done what to whom are still murky.In ...
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(CNN)Instead of eating turkey or opening presents, European Union ambassadors will spend part of Christmas Day reviewing the details of the bloc's post-Brexit trade deal with the United Kingdom.EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier will brief the Permanent Representatives Committee (COREPER), formed of ambassadors from E...
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Story highlightsJimmy Spithill joins Italians Luna Rossa The Australian is a two-time America's Cup winnerNext America's Cup is in New Zealand in 2021 (CNN)He's a two-time America's Cup-winning skipper but after Team USA's defeat in last year's event Australian Jimmy Spithill has jumped ship to join Italy's Luna Rossa....
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Barcelona, Spain (CNN)In an apartment off Barcelona's Passeig de Gracia shopping avenue, Rosario Caceres debated with her grandson over Catalonia's bid for independence from Spain.The 95-year-old lived through the Spanish Civil War, and then the dictatorship of Gen. Francisco Franco, who oppressed her people with an i...
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Story highlights'Muggsy' Bogues shortest-ever NBA playerTeammate Manute Bol stood 7 feet 7 inches tallBogues enjoyed remarkable 14-year career (CNN)As he approached the court, the crowd would raise their eyebrows and struggle to suppress their laughter: "This guy can't be serious ..." Who could blame them? At just 5 f...
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(CNN)It's been a dizzying week of gossip and speculation for Meghan Markle's father days before one of the most anticipated weddings of the year. The American actress will wed Prince Harry on Saturday at St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle in a ceremony watched by millions around the world. But while she's largely...
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Story highlightsSevens players are some of the world's fittest athletesThese training sessions keep them sharp (CNN)England's rugby sevens players have a secret weapon, but to find it they have to dig deep.It lies at the end of a grueling fitness regime which involves recreating the state of utter exhaustion the body e...
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(CNN)Speaking to reporters last week, Bill Belichick was asked if he's gotten to know his Super Bowl LIII opponent, Rams head coach Sean McVay."Yeah, I know him," the 66-year-old Patriots head coach said, which is about the extent of acknowledgment many have come to expect from the man who doesn't give much away.But M...
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Story highlightsLong fight for truth over disaster in which 96 fans diedPolice planning errors caused or contributed to disasterJurors find fan behavior played no part in tragedy (CNN)After more than two years, a British inquest into the 1989 Hillsborough soccer stadium tragedy in which 96 men, women and children died,...
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Microsoft today released its monthly batch of software security updates for the July month to patch a total of 77 vulnerabilities, 14 are rated Critical, 62 are Important, and 1 is rated Moderate in severity. The July 2019 security updates include patches for various supported versions of Windows operating systems and...
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The massive data breach at Capital One – America's seventh-largest bank, according to revenue – has challenged many common assumptions about cloud computing for the first time. Ironically, the incident, which exposed some 106 million Capital One customers' accounts, has only reinforced the belief that the cloud remain...
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It's Patch Tuesday once again…time for another round of security updates for the Windows operating system and other Microsoft products. This month Windows users and system administrators need to immediately take care of a total of 63 security vulnerabilities, of which 12 are rated critical, 49 important and one modera...
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Story highlightsAfrica's five longest presidencies are cumulatively 169 years The average age of the 10 oldest presidents is 78.5, compared to 52 in the most developed countriesDavid E Kiwuwa is Associate Professor of International Studies at Princeton University. CNN is showcasing the work of The Conversation, a colla...
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The risks associated with data breaches continue to grow, impacting a variety of industries, tech firms, and social networking platforms. In the past few months, over 1 Billion credentials were dumped online as a result of mega breaches in popular social networks. Now, Oracle is the latest in the list. Oracle has con...
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Android Security Squad, the China-based group that uncovered a second Android master key vulnerability that might be abused to modify smartphone apps without breaking their digital signatures. The whole point of digitally signing a document or file is to prove the file hasn't been modified. The process uses a form of ...
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Story highlightsFrenchman is one of world's best free skiers"One of Those Days" trilogy has amassed more than 28m YouTube viewsThovex is multiple X Games winner and 2010 Freeride World Tour championLa Clusaz native is passionate filmmaker (CNN)Imagine yourself soaring 30ft in the air on a pair of skis. Now picture a he...
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A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the official Apple's App Store and iTunes Store, affecting millions of Apple users. Vulnerability-Lab Founder and security researcher Benjamin Kunz Mejri discovered an Application-Side input validation web vulnerability that actually resides in the Apple App Store invoic...
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It is now possible to hack the human brain ? YES ! This was explained researchers at the Usenix Conference on Security, held from 8 to 10 August in Washington State. Using a commercial off-the-shelf brain-computer interface, the researchers have shown that it's possible to hack your brain, forcing you to reveal informa...
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Story highlightsIndia hosts a Formula One race for the first time this weekend, near DelhiOrganizers hoping to overcome the legacy of the 2010 Commonwealth GamesVenue was built on land bought from farmers, who have been unhappy with dealTicket prices for Sunday's race have been slashed to attract more local supportersI...
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Story highlightsCatalan president expected to address parliament TuesdaySupporters want him to declare independence but unclear if he will (CNN)Pro-independence Catalans gathered on the streets of Barcelona Tuesday ahead of a hotly anticipated speech by the region's leader on the status of the restive province.Carles P...
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The maintainers of OpenSSL have released a fix for two high-severity security flaws in its software that could be exploited to carry out denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and bypass certificate verification. Tracked as CVE-2021-3449 and CVE-2021-3450, both the vulnerabilities have been resolved in an update (version Open...
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(CNN)In 1987, the New York Giants won the Super Bowl and their quarterback Phil Simms uttered five immortal words: "I'm going to Disney World!" Thus began a tradition, which still continues to this day: The Super Bowl MVP has always repeated the line and is subsequently feted with a parade at a Disney park of their ch...
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Story highlights The Kremlin calls the sanctions "unfounded and illegal"The situation in Ukraine reflects a broader tug of war between East and WestThe sanctions were imposed a year agoLondon (CNN)European Union foreign ministers meeting Monday in Luxembourg extended sanctions against Russia imposed because of the coun...
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Cross Application Scripting vulnerability in Android browser Recently IBM researchers detected a security vulnerability in Android's Browser which can be exploited by a non-privileged application in order to inject JavaScript code into the context of any domain.This vulnerability has the same implications as global XS...
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Story highlightsItalian female football team returned to the pitch after mafia-style intimidation tried to shut down the club (CNN)The small town of Locri, in the southern Calabria region of Italy, gets little sporting attention. On Sunday though it took center stage as its female 5-a-side football team, Sporting Locri...
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Apple has discontinued its own Java plugin, issuing an 'update' that removes it from MacOS and encourages users to instead download Oracle's version of the software. Its another step by Apple towards making OS X safer on the web. Mac users may have noticed that Java-based websites are displaying a "Missing Plug-in" no...
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While Windows users are currently in fear of getting their systems hijacked by the WannaCry ransomware outbreak, Apple users are sitting relaxed, thinking that malware attacks are something that happens to Windows users, and not Apple. But you are mistaken – Apple products are also not immune to the hack attacks and m...
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Story highlightsEmbassy spokesman: France signed an agreement with U.S. authorities on Monday$60 million set aside for those deported to concentration camps on France's railwayMore than 6 million Jews died during the HolocaustSeven decades after being sent to Nazi concentration camps, survivors of the Holocaust will ha...
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Aldi Bot - Buy a Botnet just in 10 Euros Researchers of German security firm G Data have discovered that a bot builder dubbed "Aldi Bot" is currently being offered for that much on underground forums. The Aldi Bot Builder appears to be based on the ZeuS source code. The malware has nothing to do with the discount super...
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Edward Snowden, a former contractor at America's National Security Agency (NSA), has rocked the intelligence world by leaking secret documents which reveal the previously unknown extent of global spying. But looks like the NSA isn't the only one using dirty digital tricks to hack its targets. Back in September, it was...
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Washington (CNN)Two hours after emailing a real estate newsletter of luxury homes to thousands of ultra-wealthy clients Friday morning, Shawn Elliott, president of the ultra luxury division at Nest Seekers International, said he received three inquiries. They were not from potential buyers, but sellers.The calls came f...
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As much as you protect your electronics from being hacked, hackers are clever enough at finding new ways to get into your devices. But, you would hope that once a flaw discovered it would at least be fixed in few days or weeks, but that's not always the case. A three-year-old security vulnerability within a software c...
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(CNN)While a civil case from a woman alleging she was raped by soccer mega star Cristiano Ronaldo was voluntarily dismissed in Nevada state court last month, it remains open in US federal court, an attorney for the accuser told CNN on Wednesday.Multiple media outlets previously reported that Kathryn Mayorga's lawsuit ...
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A new version of COMpfun remote access trojan (RAT) has been discovered in the wild that uses HTTP status codes to control compromised systems targeted in a recent campaign against diplomatic entities in Europe. The cyberespionage malware—traced to Turla APT with "medium-to-low level of confidence" based on the histor...
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Story highlightsSecond seed Rafael Nadal through to the fourth round of Miami MastersThe three-time runner-up at the U.S. hard-court event beat Czech Radek StepanekNo. 4 Andy Murray handed a walkover after opponent Milos Raonic had to withdrawMurray handed a walkover after opponent Milos Raonic had to withdraw through ...
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Cisco has warned of an active zero-day vulnerability in its router software that's being exploited in the wild and could allow a remote, authenticated attacker to carry out memory exhaustion attacks on an affected device. "An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities by sending crafted IGMP traffic to an affected d...
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There's a scam spreading through Twitter Direct messages (DMs) and fake emails, appealing users to visit a fake twitter phishing site i.e "twittler.com". Scam uses a hijacked Twitter account to send out direct messages that appear completely legitimate. Security blogger, Janne Ahlberg blogged about this new phishing sc...
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As many non-tech savvy people think that Bitcoin looks like a Gold coin as illustrated in many stock images, perhaps these robbers also planned to rob a cryptocurrency exchange thinking that way. All jokes apart, we saw one such attempt on Tuesday morning, when three men armed with handguns entered the offices of a Ca...
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Adobe releases open source malware classification tool Adobe Systems has released a malware classification tool in order to help security incident first responders, malware analysts and security researchers more easily identify malicious binary files. The 'Adobe Malware Classifier' tool uses machine learning algorith...
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(CNN)A central Georgia sheriff is calling for changes in the mental health system after a sheriff's deputy was shot in the chest by a suspect. The suspect, 24-year-old Zachary Lucas Olivar, has a "history of mental illness," Jones County Sheriff R. N. Reece said."We have received reports that he has been having issues...
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A Nigerian threat actor has been observed attempting to recruit employees by offering them to pay $1 million in bitcoins to deploy Black Kingdom ransomware on companies' networks as part of an insider threat scheme. "The sender tells the employee that if they're able to deploy ransomware on a company computer or Window...
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(CNN)The European Union's highest court ruled on Monday that Poland must "immediately suspend" a law that forces Supreme Court judges over age 65 to retire. Critics of Poland's right-wing Law and Justice party, known as PiS, led by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, said the law was an attempt to take greater control ...
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New York (CNN Business)Workers in the Michigan auto industry could lose up to $51 million in wages this week, due to the trucker protest at the US-Canada border, according to Anderson Economic Group. The lost wages are a result of the shutdowns of the Blue Water and Ambassador bridges coupled with shutdowns at identifi...
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(CNN)Cristiano Ronaldo has denied the rape allegations made against him by an American woman, saying he has a "clear conscience."Kathryn Mayorga says the Portuguese footballer, who now plays for Italian club Juventus, raped her in a Las Vegas hotel room in 2009 while she repeatedly screamed no, according to a lawsuit ...
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A security researcher has won $24,000 from Microsoft for finding a critical flaw in its Live.com authentication system that could allow hackers to gain access to a user's complete Outlook account or other Microsoft services. Microsoft's Live.com is the authentication system that everyone go through while attempting to...
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It's not at all surprising that the Google Play Store is surrounded by a number of malicious applications that may gain users' attention to fall victim for one, but this time it might be even worse than you thought. Threat researchers from security firm ESET have discovered a malicious Facebook-Credentials-Stealing Tr...
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(CNN)A bipartisan group of senators is sharing concern with the Biden administration about the potential of widespread Russian cyberattacks in the United States as retribution for harsh sanctions against Russia in the wake of President Vladimir Putin's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. In a letter to Homeland Security S...
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Researchers on Thursday discovered a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in the widely used command-line shell GNU Bourne Again Shell (Bash), dubbed "Shellshock" which affects most of the Linux distributions and servers worldwide, and may already have been exploited in the wild to take over Web servers as part ...
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FAQ : DNSChanger Trojan, Impact and Solutions Two days before we (THN) Reported that FBI will shutdown Internet on 8th March, Title seems to be more Attention seeking , Why ? Well ! Our job is to aware you about the Internet Security. If we are looking for some extra attention from our Readers then its part of our sm...
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Security researchers from Russian Internet giant Yandex have discovered a new piece of malware that is being used to target Linux and FreeBSD web servers in order to make them a part of the wide botnet, even without the need of any root privileges. Researchers dubbed the malware as Mayhem, a nasty malware modular that...
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A teenager has been arrested by the Canadian police in relation to the infamous malicious breach on the country's taxpayer system using one of the most critical internet flaws, Heartbleed. Heartbleed bug, that made headlines over past two weeks and every websites around the world flooded with its articles. Every infor...
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Story highlightsWADA chief issues firm warning over hackingCraig Reedie says WADA taking serious action (CNN)The head of the World-Anti-Doping Agency has warned Russia that the hacking of athletes medical records could postpone the nation's attempt to return to the world stage.WADA president Craig Reedie told CNN Thurs...
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Security researchers have been warning about cybercriminals who have made over 20 million dollars in just past few months by hijacking insecurely configured Ethereum nodes exposed on the Internet. Qihoo 360 Netlab in March tweeted about a group of cybercriminals who were scanning the Internet for port 8545 to find ins...
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Story highlightsBayern Munich beat Frankfurt 5-0 to extend 100% start to the Bundesliga season to eight gamesSchalke beat Borussia Dortmund to consolidate third place in table; Dortmund now 12 points off leadFrankfurt victory leaves them five points adrift of leaders BayernBayern Munich cruised to a 5-0 win at Dusseldo...
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A recently discovered hole in the security of the Bourne-Again Shell (bash) has the majority of Unix/Linux (including OS X) admins sweating bullets. You should be, too--attackers have already developed exploits to unleash on unpatched web servers, network services and daemons that use shell scripts with environment var...
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Security researchers revealed that series of "Watering Hole" has been conducted exploiting a IE8 zero-day vulnerability to target U.S. Government experts working on nuclear weapons research. The news is not surprising but it is very concerning, the principal targets of the attacks are various groups of research such a...
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