A picture of a hug during the coronavirus pandemic has been named World Press Photo of the Year. The image shows an 85-year-old Brazilian woman at a care home getting her first embrace in five months through a transparent hug curtain. The winner of the World Press Photo of the Year, Mads Nissen, told BBC…
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at some of the best technology news stories of the week including: Livestreamer Ludwig Ahgren broke Twitch’s subscription record after streaming non-stop for 31 consecutive days Astronaut Thomas Pesquet says he will use a virtual reality headset to bike around Earth while on board the International Space Station Virtual 3D…
The Biden administration issued new sanctions against Russia on Thursday. The sanctions target over 30 Russian entities and expel 10 Russian diplomats from the US. The sanctions also accuse Russia’s foreign intelligence service of being behind the SolarWinds hack. See more stories on Insider’s business page. The Biden administration on Thursday slapped Russia with a…
Ireland’s data protection authority has launched an inquiry into Facebook over a breach of personal data. The personal details of more than 530 million Facebook users were found available on a website for hackers last week. According to the cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock, as many as 533 million Facebook accounts had their phone numbers,…
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JERUSALEM: Arch-foes Israel and Iran have long fought an undeclared shadow war across the Middle East, landing blows in Lebanon, Syria and inside the Islamic republic itself. More recently, the battle has moved to the high seas, with a series of mysterious attacks and sabotage incidents mainly in the Red and Arabian Seas. Advertisement Advertisement…
Psilocybin, a psychedelic drug found in magic mushrooms, is as effective at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, a small, early-stage trial of 59 people has found. Those taking part in Imperial College London’s Centre for Psychedelic Research’s trial were given either psilocybin or a common antidepressant called a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI)….
Cryptocurrency Fraud , Cybercrime , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Magecart-Style Attacks Included Bitcoin-Grabbing Functionality, Group-IB Reports Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 15, 2021 Fake payment form, which opens in an iFrame element, discovered in Magecart-style attacks attributed to Lazarus (Source: Group-IB) Hackers with apparent ties to North Korea that hit e-commerce shops…
The sanctions would represent the first retaliatory action announced against the Kremlin for last year’s hack, familiarly known as the SolarWinds breach. The Joe Biden administration is preparing to announce sanctions in response to a massive Russian hacking campaign that breached vital federal agencies, as well as for election interference, a senior administration official said….
Poland’s ombudsman for citizen rights has warned the independence of his office is threatened after a court ruling that it was unconstitutional to remain in his post after his term ended last September. Adam Bodnar told BBC World News: “One more institution that was independent, is going to be taken over by the ruling party.”…
