An advanced persistent threat (APT) actor has been tracked in a new campaign deploying Android malware via the Syrian e-Government Web Portal, indicating an upgraded arsenal designed to compromise victims. “To the best of our knowledge, this is the first time that the group has been publicly observed using malicious Android applications as part of
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Early on a February morning in 1922, silent film director William Desmond Taylor was found dead from a gunshot wound in his apartment in the Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. The murder, which remains unsolved, became a national scandal in an already depraved era of the movie industry. At least four people reportedly confessed to
Aside from breaking records and putting out great music, Luke Combs is genuinely one of the kindest people in country music. After the heartbreaking tragedy at the Faster Horses Festival in Brooklyn, Michigan last weekend, Luke’s stepping up in a huge way to pay all of the funeral expenses for the families of the three men
The era of DC movies in the early 2010s has now become an infamous nexus point in the franchise’s history. Christopher Nolan‘s imprint on the Batman movie franchise had taken the world by storm after The Dark Knight in 2008, and many saw Nolan as the architect of an entire DC Movie Universe to rival
It has been some years since fans of He-Man got to check in on the hero, but their wait will be over soon. After all, Netflix is about to bring its take on Masters of the Universe to life. Kevin Smith’s continuation of the franchise is going live in less than 24 hours, and there
Mr. Soul!, the award-winning documentary about the public television variety show Soul!, is coming to HBO Max August 1st, and the streaming service has released a trailer for the film that captures just how influential and ahead of its time Soul! was. Produced and directed by Melissa Haizlip, the documentary chronicles how her uncle, enigmatic
Brandon Stansell isn’t judging in his new song, just worrying about a loved one’s happiness. “Did You Settle Down Too Soon?” is premiering exclusively on The Boot; press play below to listen. “One of the greatest freedoms I found after coming out was that there were no expectations for me — I shattered those when I decided
In the several years since Jordan Peele released his second directorial effort, the twisty and wicked Us, the marketplace has been inundated with more than a few imitators of Peele’s unique blend of socially conscious horror and seemingly contradictory bleak humor—essentially inserted nervous laughter. Yet even after multiple other films and projects on that wavelength,
Shaun Weiss, the goalie in the ‘Mighty Ducks’ movie, has scored a hat trick — finishing a court-ordered drug program, getting a criminal case dismissed … and most importantly, getting his life back on track. The D.A.’s Office in Yuba County, CA praised Shaun for successfully completing the drug court program. As we’ve reported, Shaun’s
The Kitschies are a British award given to “the year’s most progressive, intelligent and entertaining fiction that contain elements of the speculative or fantastic.” They began in 2009 in order to “elevate the tone of genre literature.” Since 2017, they have been sponsored by Blackwell’s Bookshop. Previous years’ award winners include Circe by Madeline Miller,
OnePlus Nord 2 5G was launched on Thursday as the latest model in the company’s Nord series. In comparison with last year’s OnePlus Nord that came with quad rear cameras and had dual selfie cameras, the OnePlus Nord 2 5G has triple rear cameras and a punch-hole display with a single selfie camera. The new
Supermarkets Sainsbury’s, Iceland and Co-op have revealed they are suffering stock shortages as concerns grow about the impact of the so-called “pingdemic”. Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second biggest supermarket, said it “might not always have” products customers want while Iceland revealed it was also being hit and urged customers not to stockpile. Co-op said it was “running
The L.A. Education Recovery Fund and LAUSD, in collaboration with the LA Sports Council and professional sports teams, host a sports clinic for students at the Robert F. Kennedy UCLA Community School in Los Angeles on Wednesday, July 21, 2021. Participating sports organizations include the LA Dodgers, LA Rams, LA Chargers, LA Galaxy, LA Kings,
A South Carolina man has gone on trial accused of killing a woman who got into his car thinking it was her Uber ride. Nathaniel Rowland is accused of the kidnap and murder of 21-year-old university student Samantha Josephson in March 2019. Ms Josephson’s death prompted changes aimed at improving safety for those using businesses
The government is “very concerned” about the numbers of people being pinged by the NHS app, the business secretary has told Sky News. Speaking to Kay Burley, Kwasi Kwarteng said ministers were “monitoring” the situation and would be setting out a list of exempt critical workers “very soon”. Live COVID updates from the UK and
UCLA’s Hollywood Diversity Report has been awarded funding from the 2021-2022 California state budget for the first time. The total of $250,000 will support the industry’s only longitudinal analysis that connects the relationship between the diversity of key jobs in Hollywood productions with the spending power and appetites of increasingly diverse U.S. audiences. “Films directed
Oracle on Tuesday released its quarterly Critical Patch Update for July 2021 with 342 fixes spanning across multiple products, some of which could be exploited by a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. Chief among them is CVE-2019-2729, a critical deserialization vulnerability via XMLDecoder in Oracle WebLogic Server Web Services that’s remotely
Last week, the Justice Department’s Inspector General released a scathing report detailing just how badly the FBI botched the major child abuse case involving Larry Nassar, former doctor for the USA Gymnastics national team and Michigan State University accused of abusing dozens of young patients in his care across several states. The report says the
For anybody who’s a fan of both metal and country music, I already know you’ve been anticipating this new revamped covers version of Metallica’s Black Album for some time now. I mean how could you not? You’ve got some country-fied versions of the band’s hit songs with features from guys like Jon Pardi, Jason Isbell,
James Gunn doesn’t think Peacemaker will get a Season 2 because John Cena won’t stop taking the costume. The Suicide Squad director was on Jimmy Kimmel Live! talking about another set of episodes for his beleaguered anti-hero. The WWE star is known to have quite the sense of humor, so there’s no telling what kind