Earlier today in Baghdad, two suicide bombings in the same crowded marketplace claimed 32 casualties, wounding at least 75 others. The attack is the first of its nature to occur in the capital city of …
Iran’s Rouhani hopes Biden will return to Obama-era nuclear deal as he dubs Trump a ‘tyrant’
Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran, has called on the recently inaugurated US President Joe Biden to return to the 2015 nuclear deal and to lift sanctions imposed by the Trump administration. Rouhani …
Trump Takes Executive Action on Drones in Final White House Days
Just a few days before his departure, former President Donald Trump issued a slate of executive orders, including one that changes how the US can obtain drones. The executive order tells federal …
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Parler Finds a Reprieve in Russia—but Not a Solution
After the Capitol riots on January 6, a large number of leading tech companies decided to pull support for Parler, a social network that aims to provide free speech and communication. Parler was the …
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‘LuckyBoy’ Malvertising Campaign Hits iOS, Android, XBox Users
A new campaign is targeting mobile and other connected device users through utilizing cloaking and obfuscation techniques to evade detection. The malvertising campaign has been named LuckyBoy and …
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Ransomware is now the biggest cybersecurity concern for CISOs
According to a recent survey conducted by cybersecurity organization Proofpoint, ransomware is viewed by chief information security officers (CISOs) as currently posing the biggest cyber threat to …
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Iran Sanctions President Trump in Parting Shot at Departing Administration
Iran put into effect sanctions against US President Donald Trump and nine other top US officials, claiming to be enforcing threats regarding US officials' role in terrorist activities against Iran …
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Guatemala troops, police break up caravan of weary migrants
On Monday night, Guatemalan police confirmed that they, alongside soldiers and other law enforcement, broke up a group of hundreds of migrants who had spent two nights stuck at a roadblock on a rural …
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Afghanistan foils ISIS plan to assassinate the top US envoy to Kabul
Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) announced that they successfully caught and foiled an attempt by the terrorist organization ISIS to assassinate a US …
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Google is investigating the actions of another top AI ethicist
Google is reportedly investigating recent actions taken by Margaret Mitchell, a top artificial intelligence ethicist at the tech giant. The probe into Mitchell follows the forced exit of another …
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