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Check the scope: Pen-testers nabbed, jailed in Iowa courthouse break-in attempt

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Enlarge / The Dallas County, Iowa courthouse, the site of a penetration test gone spectacularly wrong. Two security contractors were arrested in Adel, Iowa on September 11 as they attempted to gain access to the Dallas County Courthouse. The two are employees of Coalfire—a “cybersecurity advisor” firm based in Westminster, Colorado that frequently does security assessments […]

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Meet the three North Korean hacking groups funding the country’s weapons programs

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Enlarge / Hacking for their home country, we guess. The Trump administration is sanctioning three North Korean hacking groups widely accused of carrying out attacks that targeted critical infrastructure and stole millions of dollars from banks in cryptocurrency exchanges, in part so the country could finance its weapons and missiles programs. All three of the

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Google has changed its algorithm to boost original reporting

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Articles that contain “original reporting” will be elevated in Google LLC’s search rankings from now on, the company announced Thursday. The change should be good news for journalists, with Google saying its team of human reviewers will also scan the deluge of stories in an attempt to find good journalism among more dubious articles. “An

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Back to school: With latest attack, ransomware cancels classes in Flagstaff

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As students returned to school across the country over the past two weeks, school districts are facing an unprecedented wave of ransomware attacks. In the past month, dozens of districts nationwide have been affected by ransomware attacks, in some cases taking entire school systems’ networks down in the process. All classes were cancelled September 5

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IoT botnet creator cops plea to hacking more than 800,000 devices

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Getty Images | Marilyn Nieves A 21-year-old Washington man has pleaded guilty to creating botnets that converted hundreds of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-facing devices into money-making denial-of-service fleets that could knock out entire Web hosting companies. Kenneth Currin Schuchman of Vancouver, Washington, admitted in federal court documents on Tuesday that he and

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Rash of ransomware continues with 13 new victims—most of them schools

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As investigations into a massive, coordinated ransomware attack against local governments in Texas continues, 13 new victims of ransomware attacks have been publicly identified. Most of them are school districts, thought the victims also include an Indiana county, a hospice in California, and a newspaper in Watertown, New York. The ransomware involved in the Texas attacks,

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Comcast, beware: New city-run broadband offers 1Gbps for $60 a month

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You can check out any time you’d like, but you can never… well, you know the song. Aurich Lawson A municipal broadband service in Fort Collins, Colorado went live for new customers today, less than two years after the city’s voters approved the network despite a cable industry-led campaign against it. “Finally, a broadband provider you

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Facebook strengthens rules for political ads ahead of 2020 election

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Facebook Inc. will make its rules on political advertising stricter to prevent the spread of disinformation on the run-up to the 2020 U.S. elections, the company announced Wednesday. The social media giant was heavily criticized for allowing Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and can’t afford to allow that to happen again this time

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US hack attack hobbles Iran’s ability to target oil tankers, NYT says

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Enlarge / Commercial oil tanker AbQaiq in 2003. Hackers working for the US government wiped out a database and computer systems that Iran’s paramilitary arm used to plan attacks against oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The attack occurred on June 20, the same day that President Trump

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