Month: August 2021

The United States killed two “high profile” ISIS targets and wounded a third in retaliation for Thursday’s suicide bombing at Kabul airport, the Pentagon has said. Speaking at a news briefing, Major General William “Hank” Taylor confirmed the drone strike, which took place on Thursday, killed an ISIS-K planner and a facilitator. A Taliban spokesman
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A new ransomware family that emerged last month comes with its own bag of tricks to bypass ransomware protection by leveraging a novel technique called “intermittent encryption.” Called LockFile, the operators of the ransomware have been found exploiting recently disclosed flaws such as ProxyShell and PetitPotam to compromise Windows servers and deploy file-encrypting malware that
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Canadian-born and Nashville-based singer-songwriter Tenille Townes‘ “Girl Who Didn’t Care” music video is inspiring and powerful. Like the song itself, she wanted the clip to serve as inspiration for women to not be deterred by big dreams, but to chase them. “I believe it’s a really powerful thing to see real people living out real stories of chasing their
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U.S. Paralympic swimmer Jamal Hill has big goals. “I set out upon this journey to become the LeBron James of swimming – to just become the greatest that I can be, but also the most recognized swimmer in the world,” Hill tells Den of Geek. Hill was just 10 years old when he first experienced
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Matthew Mindler, the child actor who went missing earlier this week, has died … law enforcement tells TMZ. The college he attended confirmed his death with an announcement to the student body … “It is with a grieving heart that I let you know of the death of 19-year-old Matthew Mindler from Hellertown, Pennsylvania, a
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Days after Sony finally released the initial teaser trailer for Spider-Man: No Way Home, Hasbro has also unveiled the film’s accompanying Marvel Legends wave. In total, six action figures make up the line — two separate No Way Home Spider-Man suits, Benedict Cumberbatch‘s Dr. Strange, J. Jonah Jameson (JK Simmons), and three comics figures. It’s
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Microsoft Surface Duo 2 launch could be around the corner as the smartphone has now been spotted on Geekbench benchmarking site. The listings suggest some key specifications of the smartphone. The Microsoft Surface Duo 2 will succeed the original Microsoft Surface Duo smartphone that launched last year. A previous leak had also tipped some key
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Business groups have been left “frustrated” after the business secretary rejected requests to loosen Brexit immigration rules to ease the supply chain crisis, telling companies to hire UK-based workers instead. Businesses across multiple sectors are struggling to meet customer demand as a consequence of labour shortages, particularly in haulage where there is a shortfall of
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Cloud infrastructure security company Wiz on Thursday revealed details of a now-fixed Azure Cosmos database vulnerability that could have been potentially exploited to grant any Azure user full admin access to other customers’ database instances without any authorization. The flaw, which grants read, write, and delete privileges, has been dubbed “ChaosDB,” with Wiz researchers noting
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