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SolarWinds vulnerabilities continue to be targeted by overseas hackers months after the US information technology company suffered a widespread cyberattack. On Tuesday, Microsoft said that a group operating out of China was using a zero-day remote code execution to attack SolarWinds software. If successfully exploited, the flaw in the IT company’s Serv-U software allows hackers…
As it promised last month, Amazon has launched its serialized fiction Kindle Vella store that lets you unlock episodic, self-published stories via in-app purchases. The new platform is a way for readers to discover new fiction and a new way for authors to generate revenue from the Kindle Direct Publishing service. While the name might…
The Russia-linked ransomware group behind some of the biggest recent cyberattacks has disappeared from the internet. According to CNBC, Reuters and The Washington Post, the websites operated by the group REvil went down in the early hours of Tuesday. Dmitri Alperovitch, former chief technology officer of the cyber firm CrowdStrike, told The Post that the…
Former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) arrives for the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. (Andrew Harnik/AP Photo) President Joe Biden will nominate former GOP Sen. Jeff Flake as his ambassador to Turkey, choosing a Republican to lead one of the U.S.’…
With the Democrats in control of the White House and Congress in Washington and the governor’s office and legislature in Richmond, Va., Republican Taylor Keeney say she can’t remain “on the sidelines.” And on Wednesday morning, Keeney announced her candidacy for the House in Virginia’s 7th Congressional District in hopes of challenging two-term Democratic Rep….
The remains of a 23-year-old Paraguayan woman who was a nanny at the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, were returned to her home country on Tuesday. Leidy Vanessa Luna Villalba nannied for the family of the sister of Paraguayan first lady Silvana Lopez Moreira. The bodies of the first lady’s sister Sophia Lopez Moreiro, her…
There should be greater global awareness about the two-decade long persecution of Falun Gong practitioners in China, a U.S. congressman has said. In an interview, Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) also pointed to how practitioners in China have been targeted by the state for forced organ harvesting, which “is as horrific as you can imagine that…
Zendaya is opening up about her thoughts regarding the controversy over the resign of Lola Bunny for the upcoming Space Jam: A New Legacy. If you don’t know, many fans spoke out about how Lola Bunny looks in the new movie, as she looked a lot different in the 1996 movie. Director Malcolm D. Lee…
Leading Democratic Senate candidates in three key races where their party aims to flip a red seat blue in the 2022 midterm elections are hauling in campaign cash as they spotlight their opposition to the legislative filibuster, which many in their party are hoping to scrap to advance key policy initiatives. Rep. Val Demings of…
