Great read here by about a devastating ransomware attack in Ireland that took down the health care system and the hackers behind it....
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Reports that Russian prosecutors want a 9-year sentence for journalist Alexander Nevzorov, accused of spreading "fakes" while criticizing the Ukrainian invasion
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Companies tied to artificial intelligence services recorded some of their highest trading volumes on record this month, amid a frenzy of interest in ChatGPT
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Gery Shalon, the mastermind of a massive financial-data hack, left the US two years ago for Israel, his father says bloomberg.com/news/articles/ via
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The latest twist in the mysterious case of Gery Shalon, mastermind of JPMorgan hack. His conspirators went to jail; he left for Israel. What gives? By and with a big assist from
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NEW: Ella Irwin, Twitter’s current head of trust and safety, has become the chief executor of Musk’s whims—even when it goes against established protocols for social media content work that Twitter and its peers have refined for the past decade.
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🚨 Cybercriminals stung as HIVE #ransomware infrastructure shut down.
🌍 The international operation involved authorities from 13 countries.
🔓 Law enforcement identified the decryption keys & shared them with many victims.
Details ➡️ europol.europa.eu/media-press/ne
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"The group is notable in its undiscerning choice of targets, having no limits when it comes to healthcare providers and hospitals, as evidenced in a recent attack on Memorial Health System hospitals in Ohio."
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Two reports detail how the Hive ransomware group (which the DoJ has just brought down) targeted a medical company last year sentinelone.com/labs/driving-t and healthcare provider
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Of all the great cyber threat group names out there, Spamouflage Dragon has got to be the one
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Scammers are ripping off food stamp recipients via EBT cards. Nasty stuff expertly told by
in the latest version of the Cyber Bulletin. Subscribe here if you haven't already: bloomberg.com/account/newsle
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New: Scammers are targeting the EBT benefits that so many Americans rely on to buy groceries.
In one case, a Queens family thought they had $1200 only to learn at the register it was almost all gone.
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Julia's incredible reporting shares the story of Dennis Wilson, who was jailed for transporting people who’d entered the US illegally
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In late 2020, I wrote a man who was serving time for trying to sneak migrants through an immigration checkpoint.
I was hoping he'd help me understand the vast smuggling economy. The story he shared was more complex and moving than I ever imagined.
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Art and artificial intelligence collide in landmark legal dispute
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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University developed a method for detecting the three dimensional shape and movements of human bodies in a room, using only WiFi routers.
vice.com/en/article/y3p via
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Colgate's frozen lasagna (vom), Harley Davidson’s eau de toilette - what items found in the Museum of Failure teach us about experimenting with new tech
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New year, new look.
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ExxonMobil scientists projected climate warming along with fossil fuel use but the company chose to ignore it. "What they understood about climate models thus contradicted what they led the public to believe."
Over in California, rain has become a spectator spot
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How long did it take the creators of the Oxford University dating website for staff and students, which was shut down after ‘huge data breach’, to come up with its name?
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🍕Much has been written about the space race between Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin. Not quite as much has been said about the exciting breakthroughs being made in the emerging field of pizza robotics 🍕 bloomberg.com/news/features/ a great read from
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⚠️ Latest Cyber Bulletin ⚠️
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when scammers offered to pay 100 phone company employees to help them hijack customer accounts, one person said yes.
@WilliamTurton describes what happens next in today's Cyber Bulletin from @technology.
oh, and this guy is in trouble.
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The attack is believed to have taken out internal wifi systems but has not impacted print or digital publication
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