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Credit to Author: Mark Frauenfelder| Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 21:00:00 +0000
Veteran tech journalist Mark Frauenfelder tries everything, including hypnosis, to recover a small fortune from a locked bitcoin device.
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Credit to Author: Floser Bacurio Jr., Wayne Low, and Jasper Manuel | Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000
FortiGuard Labs just recently found new Sage ransomware samples that, while they appear to still be Sage 2.2, now have added tricks focused on anti-analysis and privilege escalation. In this article, we will share our findings of these recent updates.
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Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 14:00:00 +0000
Scientists at the University of California Davis have launched a new project studying the hemp DNA sequence.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Steele| Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000
Inside Colorado’s Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge, a former Superfund site that embodies the painful past and uncertain future of nuclear cleanup in America.
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Credit to Author: Sarah Emerson| Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 16:00:00 +0000
Bigfoot and aliens have come to overshadow the government’s aging database of missing persons cold cases.
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Credit to Author: Wired Staff| Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000
Equifax was warned, a fun new WhatsApp feature, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:47:15 +0000
The award-winning game features an Indigenous thunderbird that destroys pipelines and restores the environment.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 20:39:21 +0000
Last week we looked at reports from China and Israel about a new “Internet of Things” malware strain called “Reaper” that researchers said infected more than a million organizations by targeting newfound security weaknesses in countless Internet routers, security cameras and digital video recorders (DVRs). Now some botnet experts are calling on people to stop the “Reaper Madness,” saying the actual number of IoT devices infected with Reaper right now is much smaller. Arbor Networks said it believes the current actual size of the Reaper botnet fluctuates between 10,000 and 20,000 bots total. Arbor notes that this can change any time.
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