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Chinese hackers had access to entire network's text messages
An elite Chinese hacking group which broke into telecommunications companies was able to access the entire network's text messages and search them for intelligence material, according to a new report.
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Henry Cavill nails Geralt's voice in new trailer for Netflix's The Witcher seriesHenry Cavill nails Geralt's voice in new trailer for Netflix's The Witcher series

The first trailer for Netflix's upcoming TV adaptation of The Witcher offered but a taste of what we could expect from the highly-anticipated show, but now a full trailer has landed which grants us a better look at the show's epic scale, along with Henry Cavill's titular Witcher, Geralt of Rivia.

The creative team behind Netflix's The Witcher has

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Hackers can steal the contents of Horde webmail inboxes with one click

A security researcher has found several vulnerabilities in the popular open-source Horde web email software that allow hackers to near-invisibly steal the contents of a victiminbox.

Horde is one of the most popular free and open-source web email systems available. Itbuilt and maintained by a core team of developers, with contributions from the wider open-source community. Itused by universities, libraries and many web hosting providers as the default email client.

Numan Ozdemir disclosed his vulnerabilities to Horde in May. An attacker can scrape and download a victimentire inbox by tricking them into clicking a malicious link in an email.

Once clicked, the inbox is downloaded to the attackerserver.

But the researcher did not hear back from the Horde community. Security researchers typically give organizations three months to fix flaws before they are publicly disclosed.

NIST, the government department that maintains the national vulnerability database, said this week that the flaws pose a &high& security risk to users.

Ozdemir said some — though not all — of the vulnerabilities were recently fixed in the latest Horde webmail version. But the Horde community has not publicly acknowledged the vulnerability — or that users of earlier versions of the webmail are still vulnerable.

&It is really very easy to steal peopleemail,& he told TechCrunch.

His bug report filed with Horde remains open at the time of writing. We emailed Horde several times, but did not hear back until after publication. Jan Schneider, a core developer on the project, said the vulnerabilities &have indeed been fixed, won&t be fixed, or didn&t even exist anymore at the time of the reporting.&

We found a massive spam operation — and sunk its server

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Spider webbing inspires new double-sided surgical tape
Engineers have designed a new type of surgical suture based on the sticky substance spiders use to catch their prey.
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Web.com discloses major data breachWeb.com discloses major data breach

Web.com has announced that it as well as Register.com and Network Solutions all suffered a data breach in August.

A disclosure notice that was published across all three sites, revealed that on October 16, the company had “determined that a third-party gained unauthorized access to a limited number of our computer systems in late August 2019, and a

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Apple pins Christmas hopes on wearables, trade deal
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the company's new AirPods Pro and iPhone 11 will give it strong Christmas revenue.
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