reader comments 506 with 216 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories The United States, already in possession of the largest number of infections in the COVID-19 pandemic, seems strangely committed to making things worse. As new infections have shot up to record levels, a major retailer made basic protective steps optional before reversing ..
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reader comments 88 with 69 posters participating Share this story Diebold Nixdorf, which made $3.3 billion from ATM sales and service last year, is warning stores, banks, and other customers of a new hardware-based form of “jackpotting,” the industry term for attacks that thieves use to quickly empty ATMs. The new variation uses a device ..
Enlarge / Facebook’s election “War Room” on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. reader comments 103 with 71 posters participating Share this story Facebook has touted its fact-checking process as one of the ways it intends to fight rampant disinformation heading into the 2020 US presidential election. New reports about the way the site handles the fact-checking ..
reader comments 69 with 40 posters participating Share this story Emotet, the world’s most costly and destructive botnet, returned from a five-month hiatus on Friday with a blast of malicious spam aimed at spreading a backdoor that installs ransomware, bank-fraud trojans, and other nasty malware. The botnet sent a hefty 250,000 messages during the day, ..
Enlarge / A worker for repo firm Relentless Recovery in Cleveland, Ohio, backs a car equipped with automated license plate recognition cameras out of the garage before going out to scan for cars that need to be repossessed on April 30, 2018. reader comments 161 with 86 posters participating Share this story US Customs and ..
Getty Images | Bill Oxford reader comments 99 with 62 posters participating Share this story “Bad-actor” phone companies that profit from robocalls could be blocked by more legitimate carriers under rules approved unanimously yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission. Under the change, the FCC said carriers can block calls “from bad-actor upstream voice service providers ..
Enlarge / The flag of the Islamic Republic of Iran. reader comments 104 with 58 posters participating Share this story Iranian state hackers got caught with their pants down recently when researchers uncovered more than 40GB of data, including training videos showing how operatives hack adversaries’ online accounts and then cover their tracks. The operatives ..
Enlarge / EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency – Vice President Vera Jourova (L) and the EU Commissioner for Justice Didier Reynders (R) are talking to media during the EU Commission press conference on data protection at International Level on July 16, 2020 in Brussels, Belgium. reader comments 59 with 29 posters participating Share this ..
Enlarge / Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp during a “Wear A Mask” tour stop in Dalton, Georgia, on Thursday, July 2, 2020. reader comments 382 with 189 posters participating Share this story Georgia Governor Brian Kemp yesterday issued an executive order that overturns local mask-wearing requirements. Kemp’s executive order says that “any state, county, or municipal ..
reader comments 196 with 140 posters participating, including story author Share this story Twitter accounts of the rich and famous—including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Joe Biden—were simultaneously hijacked on Wednesday and used to push cryptocurrency scams. As of 3:58 PM California time, one wallet address used to receive victim’s digital coin had ..
