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June 2, 2023Ravi Lakshmanan Zero-day/vulnerability A critical flaw in Progress Software’s MOVEit Transfer managed file transfer application has been widely exploited to take over vulnerable systems. This shortcoming is related to a severe SQL injection vulnerability, which has not yet…

We know stories are more interesting when they start with funny questions. “What is the most boring number in the world?” This is a legitimate mathematical question, and it turns out that there are interesting numbers (primes, powers of 2)…

The Fermi Paradox got its name from physicist Enrico Fermi’s visit to Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico in the 1950s. One day, when Fermi was walking to lunch with his physicist colleagues Emil Konopinski, Edward Teller, and Herbert…

Pregnant women walking in Hong Kong, March 2020 Anthony Wallace/AFP via Getty Images Getting pregnant in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging. Many had to give birth without a partner present, and new parents found themselves…

Without much publicity, Biostar announced its first graphics card based on the Intel Arc graphics processor. This add-in board is aimed at entry-level gaming PCs and is clearly not very noteworthy in and of itself. But the fact that Intel…

No sound is produced when two black holes collide. Still, if you listen carefully, you can hear this. [CLIP: Black hole “chirp”] Let’s hear it again. [CLIP: Black hole “chirp”] That “chuck” is the sound heard from two black holes…

Coral reefs of Palau, one of the areas surveyed for microbial diversity Waterframe/imageBROKER/Shutterstock A two-year expedition across the Pacific has revealed that the microbes present in coral reefs there can be as diverse as the microbiomes of other ecosystems on…

June 1, 2023Ravi LakshmananCyber ​​Crime/Malware Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered the identity of one of the individuals believed to be associated with electronic criminals known as vehicle group. According to Menlo Security, which aggregates information from various online sources, “Nguyen Phu…

Climate Wire | International efforts to curb plastic pollution face resistance from China, Saudi Arabia and other countries that see promise in plastic as demand for oil, gas and coal dwindles. The debate revolves around the terms of a future…

Cybersecurity firm Eclypsium has discovered a potential backdoor in Gigabyte Systems, raising concerns about the security of the technology supply chain. In a blog post Wednesday, the company said it used automated heuristics to detect suspicious behavior within Gigabyte systems.…