All posts tagged "bigdata"

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  Four researchers earn interdisciplinary Schmidt Science Fellowships

  Four MIT-affiliated researchers are among 28 around the world to have been named to a competitive Schmidt Science Fellowship, an award created...

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  Counterfeit PyPI packages with 5,000 downloads installed cryptominers

  Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Counterfeit packages downloaded roughly 5,000 times from the official Python repository contained secret code that installed cryptomining software...

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  A week after arrests, Cl0p ransomware group dumps new tranche of stolen data

  Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A week after Ukrainian police arrested criminals affiliated with the notorious Cl0p ransomware gang, Cl0p has published a...

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  A unique collaboration with US Special Operations Command

  When General Richard D. Clarke, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), visited MIT in fall 2019, he had artificial intelligence...

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  Monero emerges as crypto of choice for cybercriminals

  Enlarge (credit: 53 Studios | Getty Images) For cybercriminals looking to launder illicit gains, bitcoin has long been the payment method of...

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  Connecting to malicious Wi-Fi networks can mess with your iPhone

  Enlarge (credit: Apple) There’s a bug in iOS that disables Wi-Fi connectivity when devices join a network that uses a booby-trapped name,...

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  Ukraine arrests ransomware gang in global cybercriminal crackdown

  Enlarge / A Colonial Pipeline facility in Woodbridge, New Jersey. Hackers last month disrupted the pipeline supplying petroleum to much of the...

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  Newly discovered Vigilante malware outs software pirates and blocks them

  Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) A researcher has uncovered one of the more unusual finds in the annals of malware: booby-trapped files that...

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  Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

  Enlarge / Starlink satellite dish and equipment in the Idaho panhandle’s Coeur d’Alene National Forest. (credit: Wandering-coder) A Starlink beta user in...

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  CD Project Red does an about-face, says ransomware crooks are leaking data

  Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) CD Projekt Red, the maker of The Witcher series, Cyberpunk 2077, and other popular games, said on Friday...