Mr. Bezos and his brother, Mark, will be on board when his rocket company launches its first human spaceflight next month, shortly after he steps down as chief executive of Amazon.
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YouTube Isn’t the Music Villain Anymore
YouTube seems to have shown that it’s possible to both upend an industry and help make it stronger.
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What to Know About the Newest iPhone and Android Software
Apple and Google have unveiled phone features designed for an era of hybrid remote and in-person work.
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US seizes $2.3 million Colonial Pipeline paid to ransomware attackers
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The FBI said it has seized $2.3 million paid to the ransomware attackers who paralyzed the network of Colonial Pipeline and touched off gasoline and jet fuel supply disruptions up and down the East Coast last month. In dollar amounts, the sum represents about half of the $4.4 million that Colonial...
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Hacker lexicon: What is a supply chain attack?
Enlarge (credit: Frank Lindecke / Flickr) Cybersecurity truisms have long been described in simple terms of trust: Beware email attachments from unfamiliar sources and don’t hand over credentials to a fraudulent website. But increasingly, sophisticated hackers are undermining that basic sense of trust and raising a paranoia-inducing question: what if the legitimate hardware and software that...
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This is not a drill: VMware vuln with 9.8 severity rating is under attack
Enlarge A VMware vulnerability with a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10 is under active exploitation. At least one reliable exploit has gone public, and there have been successful attempts in the wild to compromise servers that run the vulnerable software. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-21985, resides in the vCenter Server, a tool for...
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Ransomware will now get priority treatment at the Justice Department
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The Justice Department has created a task force to centrally track and coordinate all federal cases involving ransomware or related types of cybercrime, such as botnets, money laundering, and bulletproof hosting. “To ensure we can make necessary connections across national and global cases and investigations… we must enhance and centralize our...
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Attack on meat supplier came from REvil, ransomware’s most cutthroat gang
Enlarge / Ransomware (credit: Getty Images) The cyberattack that halted some operations at the world’s biggest meat processor this week was the work of REvil, a ransomware franchise known for its ever-escalating series of cutthroat tactics designed to extort the highest price. The FBI made the attribution on Wednesday, a day after word emerged that...