The company said the sophisticated, covert operation targeted Uyghur activists, journalists and dissidents from China’s Xinjiang region, as well as individuals living in Turkey, Kazakhstan, the U.S., Syria, Australia, Canada and other nations. The hackers attempted to gain access to the com...
News Law would undermine attempts to break security. Photo: Ste Smith/Cult of Mac Attempts to force tech companies in the U.K. to hand over encrypted messages could be scuttled by EU proposals. European members of parliament for the European Parliament’s Civil Liberties, Justice and Home...
Prior to the out going South Korean Premier, there were serious attempts to start the re-unification process by both the South and the North. If you talk to South Koreans who were there and lived through it you get to find out that the US insisted on being involved and would make promi...
Jonathan Newnham•September 22, 2009 7:27 PM My bank (in Australia) gets around this in what I think is an obvious way: I attempt to make a transaction online. The bank sends an SMS with a confirmation code. I enter the confirmation code online. No trojan will help an attacker, they...
For one, if Apple had just limited the number of wrong password attempts, they would have allowed the attacker to implement a denial-of-service attack successfully. All the attackers need to do is to make N wrong guesses repeatedly, the account would be locked, p...
By World War I, as public interest in traditional methods of rainmaking waned, scientists turned to airplanes and cloud seeding with sand, dust, and dry ice. This method used existing clouds, rather than the earlier attempts to create clouds, and met with some local success. ...
Oct. 4. Microsoft reports an Iranian hacker group called Phosphorus made more than 2,700 attempts to identify email accounts belonging to its customers between August and September. It says the group attacked 241 accounts, including accounts associated with a U.S. presidential cam...
My spouse is an internet security specialist. We’ve had things stolen from us (or attempts to), we’ve been hacked by attack of the spambots. If these people want something, no password or firewall in the world will be secure enough for some of the savvy ones. Computer hobbyists migh...
strength, but this is typically impossible in all of the health sciences and attempts to manage or prevent disease using one lever (vaccine) and in particular such claims in virology which in reality is basically studying dangerous unicorns are absurd to claim any of it's science fiction is ...
As temporary mitigation, Linksys recommended its customers to disable the Guest Network feature on any of its affected products to avoid any attempts at the malicious activity. The company also advised customers to change the password in the default account in order to protect themselves until a ne...