Credit to Author: Hannah Singleton| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 18:51:48 +0000
Drought-stricken hydro dams have led to daily electricity cuts in Ecuador. As weather becomes less predictable due to climate change, experts say other countries need to take notice.
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Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
In seemingly the first case of its kind, the US Justice Department has charged a Chinese national with using a drone to photograph a Virginia shipyard where the US Navy was assembling nuclear submarines.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron| Date: Wed, 29 May 2024 21:16:13 +0000
The US says a Chinese national operated the “911 S5” botnet, which included computers worldwide and was used to file hundreds of thousands of fraudulent Covid claims and distribute CSAM, among other crimes.
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Credit to Author: Kim Zetter| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 11:30:00 +0000
Thanks to a flaw in a decade-old version of the RoboForm password manager and a bit of luck, researchers were able to unearth the password to a crypto wallet containing a fortune.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 09:30:00 +0000
Police are using subtle psychological operations against ransomware gangs to sow distrust in their ranks—and trick them into emerging from the shadows.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Andrew Couts| Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: US surveillance reportedly targets pro-Palestinian protesters, the FBI arrests a man for AI-generated CSAM, and stalkerware targets hotel computers.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 17:24:34 +0000
The strange journey of Lin Rui-siang, the 23-year-old accused of running the Incognito black market, extorting his own site’s users—and then refashioning himself as a legit crypto crime expert.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Thu, 23 May 2024 16:00:00 +0000
Thousands of fingerprints and facial images linked to police in India have been exposed online. Researchers say it’s a warning of what will happen as the collection of biometric data increases.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 22 May 2024 14:00:00 +0000
Ultra-wideband radio has been heralded as the solution for “relay attacks” that are used to steal cars in seconds. But researchers found Teslas equipped with it are as vulnerable as ever.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 10:30:00 +0000
A WIRED investigation found thousands of Eventbrite posts selling escort services and drugs like Xanax and oxycodone—some of which the company’s algorithm recommended alongside addiction recovery events.
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