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COMPUTERS 
November 19, 2019 LOUISIANA GOVERNMENT COMPUTERS KNOCKED OUT AFTER RANSOMWARE ATTACK
(Reuters) – Louisiana state government computers were knocked out following a ransomware attack, the governor said on Monday, as results from the close gubernatorial election in the southern state await certification. Many state agencies had their servers taken down in response to the attack, Governor John Bel Edwards said in a series of messages posted […]
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COMPUTERS 
August 17, 2017 Beware! WannaCry attack strikes Delhi, 200 computers locked out in this company
After affecting some parts of India, WannaCry has attacked a publishing firm in the national capital, New Delhi. (IE) WannaCry, a ransomware, is in the list of world’s biggest cyber attacks ever. This year in May, the malware spread like a wild fire all over the world and engulfed some major organisations within its impact. […]
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NEWS 
November 3, 2016 Google Discloses Windows 10 Bug Under ‘Active Attack’; Microsoft Working on Fix
HIGHLIGHTS Windows 10 vulnerability is win32k.sys system call Google said it’s being “actively exploited” Microsoft is unhappy with Google going public before patch On Monday, Google’s Threat Analysis Group published details of a critical vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows 10 that allows hackers to escape security sandboxes by using a system call with win32k.sys. The reason […]
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ALL DEALS 
July 27, 2016 Facebook Activates Safety Check After Istanbul Ataturk Airport Attack
Social networking giant Facebook activated its safety checkfeature for users after the a suicide attack killed 36 people at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport on Tuesday night, a media report said. The bombing dominated social media on Tuesday, with #Istanbul trending worldwide on Twitter, along with #terorelanetolsun (a cursing condemnation of terrorism in Turkish) and Ataturk Havalimani’nda […]
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CLOTHING 
June 13, 2016 ‘Wolf in Sheep’s apparel’: Suspect in French attack
French police cozy the doorway of the Air products agency in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, near Lyon, criticaljap France. (Agence France-Presse) PARIS: Yassin Salhi become a quiet man with a job, a circle of relatives and no criminal file before he allegedly released a grisly assault at an business gasoline manufacturing facility in France and pinned his boss’s […]
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COMPUTERS 
March 18, 2016 Eight-Year-Old Vulnerability Exposes Thousands of Apps, Devices to Attack
Researchers have discovered a critical vulnerability in the GNU C Library, glibc, which is exposing many Unix-based systems such as Linux servers to a range of security attacks. According to estimates, hundreds of thousands of devices, as well as apps utilising the GNU free software project are believed to be vulnerable. All versions of glibc […]
