Experts say the hackers’ intentions might not be to actually trick anyone, but to erode confidence in Ukrainian media outlets and institutions.
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Space Tourism Isn’t Just Joyriding
Having rich guys like Jeff Bezos in orbit can make space travel routine and help all of us dream big.
Hydra, the world’s biggest cybercrime forum, shut down in police sting
Enlarge / Laundering of stolen cryptocurrency was a key service offered by Hydra. (credit: Getty Images) Hydra, the world’s biggest cybercrime forum, is no more. Authorities in Germany have seized servers and other infrastructure used by the sprawling, billion-dollar enterprise along with a stash of about $25 million in bitcoin. Hydra had been operating since...
Elon Musk Becomes Twitter’s Largest Shareholder
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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hardware manufacturer Zyxel has issued patches for a highly critical security flaw that gives malicious hackers the ability to take control of a wide range of firewalls and VPN products the company sells to businesses. The flaw is an authentication bypass vulnerability that stems from a lack of a proper access-control...
How Christian Smalls and Derrick Palmer Beat Amazon
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Robert Malone Spreads Falsehoods About Vaccines. He Also Says He Invented Some.
Dr. Robert Malone says he helped invent mRNA vaccines and has been wronged for decades. Now he’s spreading unfounded claims about the vaccines and the virus.
Russia inches closer to its splinternet dream
Enlarge (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russian Twitter users noticed something strange when they tried to access the service on March 4: They couldn’t. For the previous six days, anyone trying to access Twitter from within Russia saw their Internet speed slow to a crawl, no matter how fast their connection. Then came the...
Amazon Workers on Staten Island Vote to Unionize
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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hype and hyperbole were on full display this week as the security world reacted to reports of yet another Log4Shell. The vulnerability came to light in December and is arguably one of the gravest Internet threats in years. Christened Spring4Shell—the new code-execution bug in the widely used Spring Java framework—quickly set...

