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IT admin charged with extorting employer by locking down hundreds of workstations
Ransomware threat actors don’t always have to come from outside the victim organization – take Daniel Rhyne, a 57-year-old man from Kansas City, Missouri, who is being charged with locking down, and trying to extort, his own employer. Allegedly, late last year, Rhyne was working at an industrial company in…
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Your IT department may one day control whether you can view your laptop screen or not — remote display permission features could become reality for business, for better or worse
Working from an office can be complicated at the best of things, and things look set to get more so with a new tool aimed at protecting screens from unwanted eyeballs of all kinds. Laptop Switchable Privacy from Rain Technology is aimed at so-called Tier 1 manufacturers like Apple, Dell,…
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China is spending billions on eight national datacenter hubs
China’s “East Data West” computing project is apparently in full swing, with $6.1 billion already invested on eight datacenters across the nation, which aims to complete the project by 2025. The project was announced in February 2022 with the aim to complete eight national computing hubs and 10 national datacenter…
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Iranian hackers work with ransomware gangs to break into companies via VPN and firewall tools
Firewalls and VPNs are being used as a point of entry for Iranian state-sponsored hackers, tracked as Pioneer Kitten, looking to gain access to American schools, banks, hospitals, defense sector firms, and government agencies. The attackers are gaining access through vulnerable devices from Check Point, Citrix, and Palo Alto Networks,…
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China leads in up to 89% of tech research, study shows
New research from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) shows that China is now leading the way in 57 out of the 64 technologies assessed by its Critical Technology Tracker, which has now been updated to cover the last 20 years. The tracker measures a country’s performance based on the…
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Major Atlassian flaw hacks systems for crypto mining
Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Confluence Server used to carry a maximum severity vulnerability that allowed threat actors to remotely run any malicious code. Despite the fix being available for months now, there are many unprotected endpoints out there. As a result, hackers have been observed installing cryptocurrency miners on…
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