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‘X’ Marks the Spot: Officials Map a Route Out of the Pandemic
Governments and organizations around the world are using geospatial data and digital mapping tools to guide their vaccination campaigns.
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With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Scammers have been caught using a clever sleight of hand to impersonate the website for the Brave browser and using it in Google ads to push malware that takes control of browsers and steals sensitive data. The attack worked by registering the domain xn--brav-yva[.]com, an encoded string that uses what’s known...
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Social media platforms are failing to monitor anti-Semitism, two reports say.
Social media companies like Facebook and YouTube pledged to remove anti-Semitic content. New reports show they are falling short of that promise.
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Nooses, Anger and No Answers: Inside the Uproar Over a Future Amazon Site
The discovery of multiple nooses has set off heated debates about the responsibility of companies and the ability of workers to speak their mind.
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Activision, Facing Internal Turmoil, Grapples With #MeToo Reckoning
More than 1,500 employees for the video game giant, which is facing an explosive state lawsuit, have called for executives to take sexual harassment seriously.
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Credit to Tech’s Pandemic Leadership
America’s tech companies have been leading the way for how large employers should aid in the country’s pandemic response.
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Bezos’ Blue Origin Loses Challenge to NASA SpaceX Lunar Lander Contract
The Government Accountability Office said a $2.9 billion award to SpaceX to build the next lunar lander for astronauts would stand.
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Software downloaded 30,000 times from PyPI ransacked developers’ machines
Enlarge Open source packages downloaded an estimated 30,000 times from the PyPI open source repository contained malicious code that surreptitiously stole credit card data and login credentials and injected malicious code on infected machines, researchers said on Thursday. In a post, researchers Andrey Polkovnichenko, Omer Kaspi, and Shachar Menashe of devops software vendor JFrog said...
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New bank-fraud malware called Vultur infects thousands of devices
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Recently detected Android malware, some spread through the Google Play Store, uses a novel way to supercharge the harvesting of login credentials from more than 100 banking and cryptocurrency applications. The malware, which researchers from Amsterdam-based security firm ThreatFabric are calling Vultur, is among the first Android threats to record a device...