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- Cyberwars begin - The Baltic nation of Estonia was the first state hit by a massive cyberattack in 2007, paralysing key corporate and government web services for days. Estonia blamed Moscow, with which it was mired in a diplomatic conflict, but the Kremlin denied the charge. - First industrial target - A powerful computer virus called Stuxnet attacked Irans nuclear facilities in 2010 in an apparent bid to cripple the countrys atomic programme.  Stuxnet hit the functioning of Iranian nuclear ...

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Larry Probst will step down as chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee, exiting with a complicated legacy that includes restoring the federation’s international reputation while leaving it saddled with as many problems on the home front as he faced when he arrived. Probst, who announced his departure Monday, will step down at the end of the year, to be replaced... spokesman Mar 21, 2018 Within hours of curler Alexander Krushelnitsky being stripped of a bronze medal for a dopin...

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Larry Probst will step down as chairman of the U.S. Olympic Committee, exiting with a complicated legacy that includes restoring the federation’s international reputation while leaving it saddled with as many problems on the home front as he faced when he arrived. Probst, who announced his departure Monday, will step down at the end of the year, to be replaced... food Mar 21, 2018 The curling world was floored when word broke that Russian Olympic curler Aleksandr Krushelnitsk...

The curling world was floored when word broke that Russian Olympic curler Aleksandr Krushelnitsky was facing a doping charge.... On Monday, Krushelnitsky’s fellow curlers were trying to make sense of the scandal, with some openly questioning whether he had been slipped a banned substance without his knowledge.... Russian women’s curling coach Sergei Belanov said he didn’t believe that a young and “clever... adviser Mar 21, 2018 Within hours of curler Alexander Krushelni...

Critical Infrastructure Under Attack Several recent cyber incidents targeting critical infrastructure prove that no open society is immune to attacks by cybercriminals. The recent shutdown of key US energy pipeline marks just the tip of the iceberg. Critical infrastructure is becoming more dependent on networks of interconnected devices. For example, only a few decades ago, power grids were essentially operational silos. Today, most grids are closely interlinked — regionally, nationally, and...

Lawrence Wrights The End of October is a thriller for our times By Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times © Penguin Random House/Tampa Bay Times/TNS "The End of October" by Lawrence Wright “The End of October” by Lawrence Wright; Knopf (400 pages, $27.95) ——— Timely books are often described as “ripped from the headlines.” But Lawrence Wright’s new novel, “The End of October,” scooped the headlines with its tense tale of a fast-moving pandemic and the cascade ...

Celsius email system breach leads to phishing attack on customers By 04:05 PM Cryptocurrency rewards platform Celsius Network has disclosed a security breach exposing customer information that led to a phishing attack. Today, Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky stated that Celsius third-party marketing server was compromised, and threat actors gained access to a partial Celsius customer list. "An unauthorized party managed to gain access to a back-up third-party email distribution system which had con...

CrowdStrike helps Nine deal with cyber attack Save Share Nine tapped global cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike to help it manage the fallout of last week’s attack and to work through getting systems back online. Sources told The Australian Financial Review that the California-based firm CrowdStrike Incident Response (IR) Services team was quickly enlisted on March 28 after it became apparent that Nine’s systems had been hacked. Nine’s North Sydney headquarters was the subject of a c...