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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: 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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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 13:23:00 -0700
Those of us who have to keep Windows 10 working have hit yet another rough course. This month’s patches haven’t been pretty. In fact, if your admin set the WSUS or SCCM update servers to automatically approve Windows 10 updates, you may have had to deal with oceans of blue screens.
Right now, the biggest threat is not KRACK – Computerworld‘s Gregg Keizer has an overview here and the Krackattacks.com site has the latest details; it hasn’t (yet) started infecting normal Windows users. The big threat now is from that Wacky Wascal BadRabbit, which started with a fake Flash update on a Russian site and an ancient DDEAUTO field exploit in Word (and Excel and Outlook and OneNote) and is being used to carry Locky and other ransomware.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:54:08 +0000
The music video for ‘…Ready For It?’ is full of cyberpunk tropes.
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Credit to Author: Yael Grauer| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 17:00:00 +0000
Technologists, hackers, and journalists recap the latest episode of the show that gets hacking right.
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Credit to Author: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai| Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 15:50:38 +0000
T-Mobile has called customers targeted by hackers who were trying to take control of their SIM cards, alerting them of the hack attempts, and suggesting ways to secure their accounts.
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