Scams that hijack the world’s most popular browser, Google Chrome, are making the rounds again. It starts with a fake error message. For computer users, this is a vexing problem because the underlying malicious code locks up the browser. “The bug that it triggers is more than just an annoyance in the sense that it […]
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Major International Cyber Fraud Ring Takedown…
Thanks for participating on the call. My name is David Rybicki. I am a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Criminal Division here at the Department of Justice and I supervise the Division’s Organized Crime and Gang Section. Today marks a significant step in the battle against transnational cybercrime. A federal grand jury in the […]
Watch Out! New Cryptocurrency-Mining Android Malware Is Spreading Rapidly…
Due to the recent surge in cryptocurrency prices, threat actors are increasingly targeting every platform, including IoT, Android, and Windows, with malware that leverages the CPU power of victims’ devices to mine cryptocurrency. Just last month, Kaspersky researchers spotted fake antivirus and porn Android apps infected with malware that mines Monero cryptocurrency, launches DDoS attacks, […]
Facebook Moves to Ban Advertising Promoting Cryptocurrency…
On Tuesday, Facebook announced a new policy banning ads promoting cryptocurrency, as a means of preventing what the company called “financial products and services frequently associated with misleading or deceptive promotional practices.” This means that advertisers – including companies that operate fully legal businesses – will be banned from the promotion of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, […]
Unpatched DoS Flaw Could Help Anyone Take Down WordPress Websites…
A simple yet serious application-level denial of service (DoS) vulnerability has been discovered in WordPress CMS platform that could allow anyone to take down most WordPress websites even with a single machine—without hitting with a massive amount of bandwidth, as required in network-level DDoS attacks to achieve the same. Since the company has denied patching […]
Arrest Warrant Upheld in Julian Assange Case…
A UK judge has ruled against dropping Julian Assange’s arrest warrant, declining to set him free from the Ecuadorian embassy where he’s been holed up since 2012, according to reports initially challenged by Assange. According to Assange, only the first technical point of his legal challenge has failed. Judges will hear and decide on the […]
SpaceX Launches World’s Most Powerful Rocket Toward Mars…
The world’s most powerful rocket, SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, blasted off Tuesday on its highly anticipated maiden test flight, carrying CEO Elon Musk’s cherry red Tesla roadster to an orbit near Mars. Screams and cheers erupted at Cape Canaveral, Florida as the massive rocket fired its 27 engines and rumbled into the blue sky over the […]
Samsung Confirms Making Chips for Mining Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrency…
South Korean tech giant Samsung has announced that it’s developing hardware specially designed for cryptocurrency mining. The move is aimed at boosting the firm’s profits. The disclosure was made in Samsung’s latest earnings report, in which the company also said that it had overtaken Intel to become the world’s biggest chipmaker last year. “Samsung’s foundry […]
Watch as Drone ‘Dive-Bombs’ U.S. Passenger Jet Landing in Vegas Airport…
Drone racing is a high-tech sport sweeping across the United States. Millennials are rushing to become the next drone pilot building these fast and agile multi-rotor crafts in their parents’ basements. All of these drones are controlled through FPV (First Person View) systems. FPV is a type of flying system where pilots use cameras to […]
Newsweek Fires Top Editors, Senior Reporters…
Newsweek has fired its editor-in-chief, executive news director and two senior writers after publishing reports regarding financial challenges at the publication and an investigation by the Manhattan district attorney’s office into Newsweek’s parent company. Editor-in-chief Bob Roe, executive news director Ken Li and senior reporters Josh Saul and Celeste Katz were all fired on Monday […]
More Than a Muckraker: Robert Parry Believed the Possibilities of Our Craft…
When news of Robert Parry’s death reached me a week ago, I had to stop working for a long time. I would call it an interim of respectful silence except that it was closer to paralysis. The fight against all that is corrupt, misguided, maliciously intended and simply wrong in our national life instantly seemed […]
‘Deep State’ Veterans find New Homes in Mainstream Media…
“Former CIA director John Brennan has become the latest member of the NBC News and MSNBC family, officially signing with the network as a contributor,” chirps a recent article by The Wrap, as though that’s a perfectly normal thing to have to write and not a ghastly symptom of an Orwellian dystopia. NBC reports that […]
Wow. Just Wow!: Company Accused of Spying on Customers Via Sex Toys…
A technology company selling vibrators uses a mobile application to spy on its customers in their most intimate moments, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in Northern California on Wednesday. An anonymous customer of Lovense, a sex technology company based in Hong Kong, accused the company of using its technology to spy on […]
Facebook’s Number of Subscribers Drop for First Time…
The number of people in the U.S. and Canada who check Facebook every day dropped between the third and fourth quarter of 2017, the first such quarterly drop in company history. Facebook usage in North America has been largely flat for the last several years, leaving international growth to pick up the slack. But the […]
The Publisher of Newsweek and International Business Times Has Been Buying Traffic and Engaging in Ad Fraud…
The publisher of Newsweek and the International Business Times has been engaging in fraudulent online traffic practices that helped it secure a major ad buy from a US government agency, according to a new report released today by independent ad fraud researchers. IBTimes.com, the publisher’s US business site, last year won a significant portion of […]
Engineers Oppose Effort to Expand High-Tech Visas…
The International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers urged the Senate to oppose legislation that would more than double the H-1B visa program for high-skilled workers, arguing there is no shortage of U.S. workers capable of filling the jobs the foreign visa holders would get. “Employers’ claims of a [Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math] labor […]
Twitter Followers Vanish Amid Inquiries into Fake Accounts…
More than a million followers have disappeared from the accounts of dozens of prominent Twitter users in recent days as the company faces growing criticism over the proliferation of fake accounts and scrutiny from federal and state inquiries into the shadowy firms that sell fake followers. The people losing followers include an array of entertainers, […]
Mass Surveillance and the Memory Hole by Ted Snider…
Though it received disturbingly little attention – perhaps a symptom of desensitization to news that we are constantly being surveilled – it was recently revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) destroyed data about some of its surveillance activity that it was under court order to preserve. The NSA was ordered to save the data […]
Eight Individuals Charged with Deceptive Trading Practices Executed on U.S. Commodities Markets…
Eight individuals who allegedly engaged in various deceptive trading practices on commodities markets in the United States have been publicly charged with federal crimes. Seven of the eight individuals were charged with the crime of spoofing, an illegal trading practice that can be used to manipulate the commodities markets. Other than the individuals identified today, […]
Op Ed: Washington Post, Legacy Press Betray Assange As His Freedom Hangs in the Balance…
The last two months have seen tectonic shifts regarding Julian Assange’s hopes of being able to safely leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London after what is now over seven years of arbitrary detention. The Wikileaks Editor In Chief was granted an Ecuadorian passport in December, which conferred on him the right of Ecuadorian citizenship. Potentially […]
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