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GitHub disclosed that hackers stole nearly 100,000 npm user account logins in a mid-April attack that leveraged OAuth application tokens issued to Heroku and Travis-CI. The attackers accessed a 2015 archive of user information that contained nearly 100,000 npm usernames, password hashes, and email addresses. Although hashed passwords are generated with weak hashing algorithms such […]

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) confirmed it is investigating when Elon Musk notified the market that he had bought 5% of Twitter’s stock. In its Friday announcement, the SEC released a letter dated April 4 to Musk asking why he didn’t file the necessary documents within 10 days of passing the 5% threshold.

Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor on Friday announced an administrative lawsuit against foreign tech companies such as Ggogle, alleging they violated personal data retention laws. Russia’s data retention laws require that the personal data of users in the country be stored on domestic servers. Roskomnadzor, which fined Google 3 million rubles last year on the same

Security researchers have uncovered a ransomware group dubbed GoodWill , which, as the name suggests, is run by operators that promote social justice rather than personal gain. GoodWill ransomware is written in .NET and detects the location of the infected device. Once infected, it encrypts important files such as documents, photos, videos, databases, etc. The

A CDC study found that more than one in five people under the age of 65 with Covid-19 developed long-term symptoms of Covid-19, including lesions in organs such as the heart, lungs and kidneys. Among those aged 65 and over, the proportion was even higher, at one in four. Across both age groups, COVID-19 patients

Terra Luna founder Do Kwon’s proposal to hard fork the blockchain has garnered 65 percent of the vote in a move aimed at saving the crumbling Terra ecosystem. According to the approved proposal, the old blockchain is called Terra Classic, the token whose value has recently dropped to almost zero is called Luna Classic, and

“She” would even eat her own arm. Many species die after reproduction. But in the case of mother octopuses, the situation is particularly worrisome: in most octopus species, “she” stops eating when the eggs are close to hatching. “She” then leaves her protective companion during the incubation period and becomes obsessed with her own destruction.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have demonstrated a low-cost gel membrane that can extract several liters of water per day from very dry air. The gel consists of two very cheap and common main ingredients – cellulose from plant cell walls and konjac gum, a widely used food additive. The two ingredients

From Santa Barbara, California, to Hefei, China, scientists are developing a new type of computer that will make today’s machines look like toys. Harnessing the mysterious power of quantum mechanics, it will be able to do in minutes what even supercomputers could not do in thousands of years. In the fall of 2019, Google unveiled

Tesla’s Advanced Battery Research Group in Canada, in collaboration with Dalhousie University, has published a paper exploring a new 100-year-old nickel-based battery that outperforms lithium iron phosphate (LFP) in charging and energy density. )Battery. The paper introduces a nickel-based battery chemistry designed to compete with LFP batteries in terms of lifespan, while retaining the favored

Hackers are targeting Russian government agencies with phishing emails posing as Windows Updates to trick victims into installing a Remote Access Tool (RAT). The attack, from a previously unknown APT group, ran from February to April 2022, targeting installations of RATs for subsequent espionage. The APT group’s first wave of attacks began in February, with

F-Droid, the free and open source software Android app store , has upgraded its build and distribution infrastructure . F-Droid’s infrastructure is all based on Debian, but previously all application builds were done on the older version Debian 9 “stretch” released in 2017, F-Droid is now being upgraded to the latest Debian 11 “bullseye”. Upgrading

Mozilla has released an emergency update that fixes a Firefox and Thunderbird 0day exploited by security researchers at the Pwn2Own 2022 hacking challenge. Firefox 100.0.2, Firefox ESR 91.9.1, Firefox for Android 100.3, and Thunderbird 91.9.1 fix two high-severity vulnerabilities. Security researcher Manfred Paul won a $100,000 bounty for demonstrating the exploit on Pwn2Own. The first