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US says Russian state hackers lurked in defense contractor networks for months
Enlarge / What’s happened to Russia’s flag? (credit: Sean Gladwell / Getty Images) Hackers backed by the Russian government have breached the networks of multiple US defense contractors in a sustained campaign that has revealed sensitive information about US weapons-development communications infrastructure, the federal government said on Wednesday. The campaign began no later than January...
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Out With the Facebookers. In With the Metamates.
Now that Facebook has renamed itself Meta, that’s what employees will be known as, the company said.
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Flood of malicious junk traffic makes Ukrainian websites unreachable
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Ukraine’s defense ministry and two banks were knocked offline on Tuesday by a flood of malicious traffic designed to prevent people from visiting the sites, Ukraine’s information security center said. The distributed denial-of-service attacks targeted the websites for Ukraine’s defense ministry, the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and two banks, Privatbank and...
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Researchers find threat group that has been active for 5 years
Enlarge / Warning: Data transfer in progress (credit: Yuri_Arcurs/Getty Images) Researchers on Tuesday revealed a new threat actor that over the past five years has blasted thousands of organizations with an almost endless stream of malicious messages designed to infect systems with data-stealing malware. TA2541, as security firm Proofpoint has named the hacking group, has...
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Peter Thiel, the Right’s Would-Be Kingmaker
Peter Thiel, one of Donald J. Trump’s biggest donors in 2016, has re-emerged as a prime financier of the Make America Great Again movement.
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Hacking group is on a tear, hitting US critical infrastructure and SF 49ers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A couple of days after the FBI warned that a ransomware group called BlackByte had compromised critical infrastructure in the US, the group hacked servers belonging to the San Francisco 49ers football team and held some of the team’s data for ransom. Media representatives for the NFL franchise confirmed a security...
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Divorcing Couples Fight Over the Kids, the House and Now the Crypto
Dividing the family’s Bitcoin stash has become a major source of contention in divorce cases.
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Making ‘Dinobabies’ Extinct: IBM’s Push for a Younger Work Force
Documents released in an age-discrimination case appear to show high-level discussion about paring the ranks of older employees.
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$3.6 billion bitcoin seizure shows how hard it is to launder cryptocurrency
Enlarge / The IRS detailed the winding and tangled routes the couple allegedly took to launder a portion of the nearly 120,000 bitcoins stolen from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex in 2016. (credit: William Whitehurst | Getty Images) On Tuesday, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were arrested in New York and accused of laundering a record...