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A good example of how the media influence the attitude of humans to the animal world. During Halloween, the media is often keen to create exciting stories about bats, adding myths about blood-sucking vampires or bats that can nest in the hair. However, by presenting bats exclusively as a threat...

Now the service will not be able to ignore "do-not-track" signals. If he doesn't appeal… In Germany, a scandal broke out over the social network LinkedIn and its privacy policy. The Federation of German Consumer Organizations has won a lawsuit accusing the platform's owners of violating users...

Weapons give protesters a chance to make mistakes at rallies. Firearms manufacturer FN Herstal has introduced a new model designed to reduce the number of accidental kills during civil clashes. The device, in addition to firing non-lethal elastomeric projectiles, is equipped with a digital...

ESET researchers have revealed a secret weapon against malware. ESET cybersecurity experts have reported what they believe is the "targeted" destruction of the Mozi botnet, which penetrated more than a million Internet of Things (IoT) devices worldwide. Mozi, identified in 2019 by 360 Netlab...

Attackers hacked a popular Telegram bot used to track transactions on the Uniswap decentralized exchange. The volume of losses is estimated at $560,000. The project team has already confirmed the fact of hacking and suspended the operation of the platform. "We encountered an exploit on our new...

Developers should clearly teach the Slack messenger to format text correctly. Cybersecurity specialists from the eSentire Threat Response Unit have identified an interesting technique for cyber attacks on employees of companies that use the corporate messenger Slack. The method is called...

Is there a complete VPN blackout in Russia? Recently, residents of the southern regions of Russia have encountered problems accessing VPN services, including those based on the Shadowsocks proxy protocol. This protocol allows you to bypass the blockages set by Internet service providers. It is...

Experts suspect that Hunters International hackers are just rebranding dangerous software. A new character has appeared in the cybercrime arena — the hacker group Hunters International, which offers its ransomware as a service. A distinctive feature of these "hunters" is the use of source code...

Who would have thought that an ordinary dessert would lead to a cosmic breakthrough. About 30 years ago, a young engineer named Christopher Walker was making chocolate pudding when he received an unexpected call from his mother. As he turned off the stove and covered the pan with clingfilm, he...

Watch the one hundred and twenty-third issue of Security News and learn about the most important and interesting events in the world of cybersecurity. - Dangerous games. Russia will take control of the online gaming market. The authorities believe that computer games can be used to spread...

How technology is changing approaches to policing. In 2014, the creators of Knightscope announced their ambition to create a fleet of robots to patrol shopping malls and other public places. Almost 10 years later, one of the company's robots is now patrolling the Times Square subway station in...

How new data is changing our understanding of space. In the depths of space, an amazing structure resembling a human hand has been discovered. This object, known as MSH 15-52, is propagating from the pulsar PSR B1509-58. It was first observed by the Chandra X-ray observatory in 2001. However, a...

The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) has warned that AADHAAR numbers, which are assigned to citizens of the country by the UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India) system, have been leaked from the state database. This database is considered the largest biometric database in the...

Federal Security Service officers have detained a hacker in Tomsk who attacked Russian information infrastructure facilities in the interests of Ukrainian law enforcement agencies. A case of high treason was initiated, the accused was taken into custody, the press service of the department...

Representatives of the judicial systems of the countries participating in the "One Belt, One Road" initiative (BRI) agreed to work more closely together to strengthen the effectiveness of the judicial system and combat cross-border crime, the press service of the Supreme People's Court (SPC) of...

In the Moscow region, officers of the criminal investigation department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia "Balashikha" with the support of Rosgvardiya detained two residents of the Leninsky City District aged 25 and 29 years, suspected of committing fraud. It is established that the...

Law enforcement officers stopped the illegal activities of the group, whose members produced and sold fictitious diplomas of education and documents that allow those liable for military service to travel abroad without hindrance. The defendants are under round-the-clock house arrest. For...

During the conversation, the stranger told the interlocutor that she is the heiress of a decent fortune in the amount of*2.5 million US dollars, but is completely alone, seriously ill and wants to donate 60% of this amount to charity. The remaining 40% in the event of her death, she offered to...

A former official from the Tyumen region was divorced for almost 20 million rubles — to convince a woman to put money in a "safe account", fraudsters helpfully ordered her a car. On October 18, 66-year-old Valentina received a call from a certain Alexander, who introduced himself as a leading...