Economy

March 31, 2022
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Mystery solved in destructive attack that knocked out >10k Viasat modems

Enlarge / A Viasat Internet satellite dish in the yard of a house in Madison, Virginia. (credit: Getty Images) Viasat—the…
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March 31, 2022
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Researchers used a decommissioned satellite to broadcast hacker TV

Enlarge (credit: Darryl Fonseka | Getty Images) Independent researchers and the United States military have become increasingly focused on orbiting…
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March 30, 2022
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IT giant Globant discloses hack after Lapsus$ leaks 70GB of stolen data

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) IT and software development firm Globant said in a statement Wednesday that it experienced a network…
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March 29, 2022
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Data-harvesting code in mobile apps sends user data to “Russia’s Google”

Enlarge (credit: Kirill Kudryavtsev | Getty Images) Russia’s biggest Internet company has embedded code into apps found on mobile devices…
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March 29, 2022
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Some Twitter traffic briefly funneled through Russian ISP, thanks to BGP mishap

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Some Internet traffic in and out of Twitter on Monday was briefly funneled through Russia after…
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March 28, 2022
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Lapsus$ and SolarWinds hackers both use the same old trick to bypass MFA

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a core defense that is among the most effective at preventing account…
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March 27, 2022
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Feds allege destructive Russian hackers targeted US oil refineries

Enlarge / Critical infrastructure sites such as this oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, rely on safety systems. (credit: IIP…
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March 26, 2022
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FCC puts Kaspersky on security threat list, says it poses “unacceptable risk“

Enlarge / Eugene Kaspersky, CEO and founder of Moscow-based Kaspersky, at the 2020 World Internet Conference (WIC) at Wuzhen, China.…
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March 24, 2022
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North Korean hackers unleashed Chrome 0-day exploit on hundreds of US targets

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Hackers backed by North Korea’s government exploited a critical Chrome zeroday in an attempt to infect…
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March 24, 2022
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A mysterious satellite hack has victims far beyond Ukraine

Enlarge (credit: bjdlzx | Getty Images) More than 22,000 miles above Earth, the KA-SAT is locked in orbit. Traveling at…
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