A former employee of American tech company Ubiquity has been jailed for six years after confessing to trying to extort nearly $2 million worth of cryptocurrency from the company while posing as an anonymous hacker and whistleblower. According to a…
Climate Wire | Calm and tropical Hawaii seems like the last place on earth to see snow and ice. However, the tips of some of the highest mountains in the archipelago often drop below freezing in winter and are covered…
Tech companies are often thought of as having a security advantage over other older, mature industries. Most businesses will be freed from the burden of 40 years of legacy systems and software. They have recruited the world’s youngest and brightest…
New information has surfaced regarding the activities of the Qilin ransomware group and their Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) program. In its latest research study, Group-IB’s threat intelligence team has penetrated and analyzed Qilin’s inner workings, revealing insights into what targeted critical sectors…
I’ve come across many Acer Aspire 5’s so far. Ranging from excellent to not-so-good and everything in between. So I was excited to test the latest 12th Gen Core i5 Aspire to see where it falls on that spectrum. From…
The future of terrestrial astronomy is bright. And that’s bad. The sky is rapidly filling with fast-moving satellites reflecting sunlight and zapping the astronomer’s detectors. After all, it’s very difficult to see faint galaxies in distant space when someone shines…
May 15, 2023Ravi LakshmananNetwork Security/SCADA Several security vulnerabilities have been identified in the cloud management platforms associated with three industrial cellular router vendors that may expose operational technology (OT) networks to external attacks. The findings were announced by Israeli industrial…
How competent are you compared to your colleagues? Interesting patterns emerge when psychologists approach teams of colleagues with this question differently. If people have a truly realistic view of their abilities, their self-esteem should typically be intermediate. Rather, psychologists have…
May 15, 2023Ravi LakshmananEndpoint security/ransomware A new ransomware group known as RA Group is the latest actor to leverage the leaked Babuk ransomware source code to generate its own locker variant. According to cybersecurity firm Cisco Talos, the cybercrime gang…
One of the UK’s largest pension plan providers has warned nearly half a million members that they should assume their data has been compromised in a recent breach at outsourcing firm Capita. Established in 1974, the University Retirement System (USS)…
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