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Meat Supplier JBS Is The Lastest Company Hit With Ransomware Attack

7:53am June 02, 2021

by Greg Myre

JBS, the world's largest meat processor, has been hit by hackers, threatening the firm's operations in the U.S. and Australia. The case illustrates the growing threat hackers pose to key industries.

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A Kargu rotary-wing attack drone loitering munition system manufactured by the STM defense company of Turkey. A U.N. report says the weapons system was used in Libya in March 2020.

World News

A Military Drone With A Mind Of Its Own Was Used In Combat, U.N. Says

6:38pm June 01, 2021

by Joe Hernandez

Autonomous drones can fly themselves to a specific location, pick their own targets and kill without the assistance of a remote human operator. The U.N. says such a drone was in the air in March 2020.

Parents Say There Doesn't Need To Be A Kid-Only Instagram, Just A Kid-Friendlier One

4:42pm June 01, 2021

by Shannon Bond

Facebook says it's working on a version of Instagram for preteens because kids are lying about their age to get on its regular app. Many parents aren't sure Facebook's solution is the right one.

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Microsoft says the same group that breached the software company SolarWinds seems to have launched another hack, this time using phishing attacks on a number of human rights agencies, including the U.S. Agency for International Development.

National

What Microsoft Officials Know About Russia's Phishing Hack Targeting USAID

7:04pm May 28, 2021

by Dina Temple-Raston

The Russian group that attacked SolarWinds focused on another government supplier in its latest hack: an email marketing company used by the U.S. Agency for International Development, Microsoft said.

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Hackers used the U.S. Agency for International Development's email marketing account to send messages that looked legitimate — but links in the email exposed recipients to malicious software, Microsoft says.

What We Know About The Apparent Russian Hack Exploiting A U.S. Aid Agency

5:02pm May 28, 2021

Screenshots of the malicious email show that it purports to be a special alert from the government. "Donald Trump has published new documents on election fraud," the message declares.

The Normandy, coolest ship in this part of space.

Arts

Reading The Game: In 'Mass Effect,' The Story Starts With The Spaceship

7:00am May 28, 2021

by Jason Sheehan

The Mass Effect series is known almost as much for its storytelling as its actual gameplay — as the series is rereleased in an omnibus Legendary edition, we look at what makes it so literary.

Mark Prausnitz, Georgia Tech Regents' professor in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, holds a vaccine patch containing microneedles that dissolve into the skin.

Health & Safety

A Vaccine Patch Could Someday Be An Ouchless Option

6:03pm May 27, 2021

by Joe Palca

Scientists around the world are working on a way to inject vaccines painlessly. The trick is to make the needles so small. they don't interact with the nerve endings that signal pain.

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Helgoland: Making Sense of the Quantum Revolution, by Carlo Rovelli

'Helgoland' Offers A New Way To Understand The World, And Our Place In It

11:52am May 27, 2021

by Adam Frank

Carlo Rovelli writes that quantum mechanics tells us reality is a net of interactions where there are no things, only relationships; nothing has properties until it interacts with something else.

Under a new directive, pipeline operators will be required to report cyberattacks to the U.S. government.

In Wake Of Colonial Attack, Pipelines Now Must Report Cybersecurity Breaches

9:19am May 27, 2021

by Brian Naylor

The action, the first of several planned steps by the federal government, follows the ransomware hack of the Colonial Pipeline.

A gas pump is marked "out of service" as cars line up May 11 at a Circle K in Charlotte, N.C., following a ransomware attack that shut down Colonial Pipeline.

National

Pipeline Companies Will Have To Report Cyberattacks To The Government

4:04pm May 26, 2021

by Avie Schneider

Pipeline and other key infrastructure companies aren't currently required to report ransomware attacks, so "we don't really understand how bad the problem is," says a former cybersecurity official.

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