Over the past week, new legislation was introduced aiming to mandate an exhaustive federal government-led examination of the impacts of blockchain nationally and globally. This specific bill was …
New report alleges killings, mass detentions in Ethiopia
A recent report released by Amnesty International alleges that Ethiopia's security forces have partaken in extrajudicial killings and mass detentions despite the country's prime minister received the …
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Moscow more than doubles citys Covid-19 death toll
Recently, Russian authorities have revised the official COVID-19 death toll of its capital city, Moscow, for the month of April. Initially, authorities claimed that 639 individuals died as a result of …
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DHS Creates Tool to Predict How Long SARS-CoV-2 Lives on Surfaces
The Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology Directorate has produced a predictive modeling tool that analyzes how long the SARS-CoV-2 virus (the virus that causes COVID-19) remains on …
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Hackers Compromise Cisco Servers Via SaltStack Flaws
Cisco disclosed on Thursday that six of its VIRL-PE servers were compromised after threat actors used critical SaltStack vulnerabilities in a targeted attack. Cisco stated that the attackers used to …
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Highly-targeted attacks on industrial sector hide payload in images
Attackers have been using malicious PowerShell scrips in images to steal industrial sector employee credentials in a highly targeted campaign. The technique, steganography, uses public hosting imaging …
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NSA Warns of Ongoing Russian Hacking Campaign Against U.S. Systems
On Thursday, the US National Security Agency (NSA) released a warning to government partners and private companies about an ongoing Russian hacking operation that targets operating systems behind …
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Fortune 500 company NTT discloses security breach
On May 7, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) suffered from a security breach that exposed information on 621 customers from its communications subsidiary. The company is the 64th biggest in the …
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Hundreds of South Korea schools close again after reopening
On Friday, South Korea closed over 500 schools after a brief reopening due to a small resurgence of COVID-19 in its capital city, Seoul. Public spaces including government-operated parks, art …
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U.S. Officially Declares That Hong Kong Is No Longer Autonomous
Amid violent protests in Hong Kong, the State Department has declared the region no longer has a high degree of autonomy from China. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo released this …
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