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An attack has crippled the company’s operations—and cut off a large portion of the East Coast’s fuel supply—in an ominous development for critical infrastructure.

Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say Photo: STR/AFP (Getty Images) When you get a new phone number, mobile carriers will often “recycle” your old one—assigning it to a new phone and, therefore, a new customer. Carriers say the reason they do this is to stave off a hypothetical future of “number exhaustion”—a sort of “peak oil” for phone numbers, when every possible number that could be assigned to a phone has been taken. Advertisement However, the act of ...

New Chinese Malware Targeted Russias Largest Nuclear Submarine Designer A threat actor believed to be working on behalf of Chinese state-sponsored interests was recently observed targeting a Russia-based defense contractor involved in designing nuclear submarines for the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces. The phishing attack, which singled out a general director working at the Rubin Design Bureau, leveraged the infamous "Royal Road" Rich Text Format (RTF) weaponizer to deliver a previously ...

The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? America has a serious infrastructure problem. Maybe when I say that what comes to mind are all the potholes on your street. Or the dismal state of public transportation in your city. Or crumbling brid...

Classes canceled as hackers hit Centennial School District District computers were breached, canceling classes, while district fixes the problem. The Centennial School District announced Monday afternoon that all of its schools will be canceled Tuesday, April 27, and Wednesday, April 28, because the districts computer system was breached. The school district said Monday, April 26, it "discovered that certain files on its systems were encrypted by an unknown actor." The district took ...

Has Online Retail’s Biggest Bully Returned? Outraged customers of Eyeglassesdepot.com sound like the victims of a man who’s already spent years in prison for terrorizing consumers. Credit...Ben Konkol May 2, 2021, 3:00 a.m. ET The worst online shopping experience of Samin Beringer’s life started with a Google search last fall for a pair of Chanel sunglasses. One of her top results was a site called Eyeglassesdepot, which promised to beat the price of any competitor. On Nov. 2, sh...

Police are again urging residents to beware of email and telephone scams after $77,000 was drained from a Sandwich woman’s bank accounts last week. The 59-year-old woman was in tears when she walked into the Sandwich Police Station on April 22 just after 7 PM to report the theft, police said. She told police that she had received an email from what appeared to be Norton 360, the computer security company. The email stated that her subscription to Norton 360 had been renewed at a cost of $2...

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Computers compromised, Centennial extends school closure Students wont have classes all this week after unknown actors installed malware Centennial School District extended its closure for the remainder of the week after it announced Monday that the district computer systems were breached. The East County district initially said it would be closed Tuesday, April 27 and Wednesday, April 28, but Tuesday night extended the closure through Friday, April 30. "Due to the unauthorized int...

Hackers Threaten to Leak D.C. Police Informants Info If Ransom Is Not Paid The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) of the District of Columbia has become the latest high-profile government agency to fall victim to a ransomware attack. The Babuk Locker gang claimed in a post on the dark web that they had compromised the DC Polices networks and stolen 250 GB of unencrypted files. Screenshots shared by the group, and seen by The Hacker News, include various folders containing what appears to be i...