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France initiates international “disinfection” to exterminate RAT prior to the Olympics
On the eve of the Olympics, French authorities are cleaning devices affected by a botnet that posed espionage threats.
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CrowdStrike losses could top $1.5 billion, most systems back online
Insurance industry analysts are tallying up the cost of company losses from last week's CrowdStrike outage, with a price tag ranging from less than half a million to over 1 billion dollars, once recovery is mostly complete. This is as CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said on Thursday that 97% of Microsoft Windows systems are back online.
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Cyberattacks on the Paris Olympics are inevitable, says PM
ANSSI, France’s national cybersecurity agency met Thursday prompting French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal to warn the public that cyberattacks during the Paris Olympic games would be ‘inevitable.’
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Deleted GitHub data is forever accessible to anyone, researchers claim
Microsoft-owned GitHub’s design makes repository data forever available, potentially enabling malicious actors to access sensitive information such as API keys and secrets even after users think they’ve deleted it.
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Meta deletes 63K sextortion scam accounts from Instagram, Facebook
Meta have said that it has deleted more than 63,000 sextortion scam accounts from Instagram, as well as another 2500 from Facebook – all originating from Nigeria and mostly targeting men and even some children in the US.
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CrowdStrike’s postmortem: blames validation tool, promises improvements
The faulty software update provided by CrowdStrike Falcon crashed 8.5 million Windows systems worldwide and sent many critical services into disarray. This update slipped through the cracks due to errors in the cybersecurity vendor’s content validation software. In the preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) the company admits it over-relied on its past successes and promises improvements.
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Musk on reported Trump donations: “I don’t prescribe to cult of personality”
Billionaire Elon Musk denied media reports that he has been donating $45 million a month to former President Donald Trump’s election campaign.
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Leave big tech alone: breakup would harm the economy, think tank warns
Large corporations, including big tech, are dominant in the market. However, the independent think tank Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) argues that breaking them up or otherwise limiting them may not be the best approach as it harms innovation and efficiency.
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AT&T outage due to failed network update, FCC releases new findings
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has finished its investigation into February’s hours-long AT&T outage that disrupted dozens of 911 call centers nationwide and says the telecom giant’s lack of “best practices” and numerous “procedural errors” led to the public safety fiasco.
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CrowdStrike CEO called to testify over outage by US Congress
US lawmakers have called on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify on Capitol Hill and explain in detail the events leading up to last Friday’s global tech outage.
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Influencers like Andrew Tate drive extreme misogyny, British police say
Online influencers like Andrew Tate are radicalizing young boys and men in much the same way terrorists recruit followers, the police have warned.
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Tesla's Cybertruck will be a new combat vehicle on Fortnite
The contentious electric truck makes its debut in two of Epic Games' major titles - Fortnite and Rocket League.
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NoName pro-Russian hackers arrested in Spain, group vows retaliation
Pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16) unleashes a wave of attacks against Spain after three of its members are arrested by Spanish authorities over the weekend.
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Delta CEO expects delays to last for days, cancels 800 flights
US carrier Delta Air Lines CEO says recovery from last week's global cyber outage will drag on for days as hundreds more flights are cancelled, stranding thousands of passengers for the fourth day in a row.
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Musk says Tesla will employ humanoid robots by 2025
Elon Musk on Monday said that “useful” humanoid robots will begin working internally at Tesla factories by 2025.
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Disastrous CrowdStrike update disrupts 8.5 million systems, Microsoft offers recovery tool
A software update pushed by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike knocked offline 8.5 million Windows devices, which is less than one percent of machines relying on this operating system, Microsoft said. Redmond giant also released a tool to help recover affected computers.
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CrowdStrike CEO releases statement on global IT outage
CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz released an official statement Friday – in an attempt to explain to thousands of customers worldwide – how the largest IT outage in world history came to be, and how the American cybersecurity firm plans to make sure it never happens again.
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CrowdStrike airline delays reverberate in wake of IT outage
Delta, American, and United Airlines, all impacted by the CrowdStrike IT outage, say some operations are back online after thousands of US flight delays and cancelations.
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Shoppers won’t receive furniture orders after ransomware attack
Basset Furniture, one of the oldest furniture manufacturers in the US, is stopping its manufacturing operations after a ransomware attack on its systems.
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Widespread IT outage affects banking, media, airlines and other services
Shopping baskets blocking self-serve checkouts, crowds at airports, banks offline – widespread IT outages have sent multiple systems haywire.
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