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Just over a A week ago, an employee at a water treatment treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida noticed that the mouse on his screen apparently began to move on its own. It soon clicked through controls, increasing the supply of lye in the water supply from 100 parts per million to 1,100ppm, enough to cause serious damage to human material. Fortunately, the employee moved quickly to return things to normal levels. It is not yet clear who was behind this remarkable hack, and a fond reminder of how open so many business systems are despite years of warnings.

Facebook also seems to have heeded warnings about Covid-19 lung proliferation on its platform; researchers this week uncovered several scams they found on both the social media network and the telegram messaging service.

Cyberpunk 2077 CD developer Projekt Red had already been hit with players plagued by the game’s rampant lice and a bad game on legacy consoles. This week it emerged that ransomware was recently added to their list of boots, as a group of hackers allegedly stole internal documents as well as source code for the most popular games. their favorite. CD Projekt Red said it would not pay the counterfeit.

Finally, Microsoft maintained a vulnerability that was introduced to its Windows Defender anti – virus product – which was renamed Microsoft Defender last year – at least 12 years ago. The barcode scanner app started serving adware to millions of users after an update in December. And be sure to read the third part of it 2034, the fictional story of a real war with the real future with China.

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Since 2014, if you’ve been in the market for a stolen credit or identity card on the dark web – or until recently out there – the Joker’s Stash has been your one-stop shop. According to an analysis by blockchain analytics firm Elliptic, executive Joker’s Stash announced it would close the store this month after introducing the Elliptic pegs at more than a billion dollars. cryptocurrency during the run. (It is not clear whether it is JokerStash, the account that runs the market, an individual or a group.)

In October 2018, Bloomberg published “The Big Hack,” an interesting account of how China installed tiny microchips on motherboards from U.S.-based Supermicro to import dozens of companies, including Apple and Amazon. Everyone involved in that story offered a voice denial, and outside security experts were suspicious. This week, Bloomberg came back with a new round of statements, including several types of law enforcement commenting on the record about the claims. It was still not enough, however, to pacify most suspects.

Facebook has been adamant – chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg in particular – that most of the planning for Capitol riots took place on platforms other than his own. Court documents contradict that claim, Forbes found, with Facebook tuning far more references than any other social media site. The practices varied, with many protesters insisting on using Facebook to bring the riot to life, but clearly it had more of a place in events than it has come to terms with.

Apple continues with a push of privacy, this time adding a feature to its Safari browser that sends all your traffic through its own proxy servers, effectively hiding your address IP from Google when you are in Safe Browsing mode. It should not affect your experience in use, or limit the effectiveness of Google’s protection feature. It just takes a little less piece of Mountain View data about your internet trip.


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