The Biden administration said the measures would degrade the ability to wage war on Ukraine and would prevent Belarus from channeling forbidden goods to Russia.
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Google Play app downloaded more than 10,000 times contained data-stealing RAT
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A malicious app downloaded from Google Play more than 10,000 times surreptitiously installed a remote access trojan that stole users’ passwords, text messages, and other confidential data, a security firm reported. The trojan, which goes under the names TeaBot and Anatsa, came to light last May. It used streaming software and...
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Conti cybergang gloated when leaking victims’ data. Now the tables are turned
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) For months, members of Conti—among the most ruthless of the dozens of ransomware gangs in existence—gloated about publicly sharing the data they stole from the victims they hacked. Now, members are learning what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a major breach that spills all their dirty laundry—not...
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Ukraine asks ICANN to revoke Russian domains and shut down DNS root servers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Yuichiro Chino) A Ukraine government official on Monday asked the nonprofit group that oversees the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS) to shut down DNS root servers in Russia and revoke Russian domains such as .ru, .рф, and .su. The letter to ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) was...
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(BPRW) Paving a Path to Wealth for Black Artists
(Black PR Wire) Leon Ashby hopes to harness cryptocurrency technologies to create perpetual wealth for Black artists. The CEO of start-up Botic Point announced today the pending release of three non-fungible tokens—or NFTs—created in partnersh
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DDoSers are using a potent new method to deliver attacks of unthinkable size
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Last August, academic researchers discovered a potent new method for knocking sites offline: a fleet of misconfigured servers more than 100,000 strong that can amplify floods of junk data to once-unthinkable sizes. These attacks, in many cases, could result in an infinite routing loop that causes a self-perpetuating flood of traffic....
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Ukraine War Tests the Power of Tech Giants
Google, Meta, Twitter, Telegram and others are levers in the conflict, caught between demands from Ukraine, Russia, the European Union and the U.S.
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Tech Companies Help Defend Ukraine Against Cyberattacks
After years of talks about the need for public-private partnerships to combat cyberattacks, the war in Ukraine is stress-testing the system.
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Amazon Opens a Whole Foods With the Next Step in Automation
A newly revamped store in Washington shows how thoroughly Amazon has woven itself into the grocery shopping experience.
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David Boggs, Co-Inventor of Ethernet, Dies at 71
Thanks to the invention he helped create in the 1970s, people can send email over an office network or visit a website through a coffee shop hot spot.