There’s no doubt that Apple’s self-polished reputation for privacy and security has taken a bit of a battering recently. On the security front, Google researchers just disclosed a major flaw in the iPhone, finding a number of malicious websites that could hack into a victim’s device by exploiting a set of previously undisclosed software bugs.…
In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers. The notorious Retadup malware infects computers and starts mining cryptocurrency by sapping power from a computer’s processor. Although the malware was used to generate money, the malware operators easily could have run other…
via Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850,000 malware infections — TechCrunch
Watch a teaser trailer now. Adult Swim has announced a new horror anime miniseries, Uzumaki, which will feature original music from Colin Stetson. The four-part series is based on the ’90s horror manga serial from Junji Ito and follows a group of seaside villagers plagued by a supernatural force involving spiral patterns. It’s due to…
Labor Day is no no day for doing labor, so we decided to re-post last year’s brief and rather lazy post. — Today is Labor Day, which is our most bittersweet holiday of the year. We like the idea of everyone taking a day off to honor all the hard work folks are doing the […]
By Carolyn Roy-Bornstein It may be horrifying for lay folks to learn this fact, but there is a mantra in medical residency called, “watch one, do one, teach one.” As an intern, I did not have the luxury of watching scores of intravenous insertions before I tackled my own. Lumbar punctures are done less frequently. […]
via Watch One, Do One, Teach One — BREVITY’s Nonfiction Blog
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