RansomwareU.S. Attorney General Warns Ransomware “Getting Worse and Worse” By Masood Farivar Published 10 June 2021 U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland warned Wednesday that ransom-motivated cyberattacks are “getting worse and worse,” echoing other top Biden administration officials who have sounded the alarm about the problem in recent weeks.  “We have to do everything we possibly

Cloak & daggerPoisoning of Russian Writer Bykov Linked with FSB Agents Suspected in Navalny Case Published 10 June 2021 Investigative journalists say a detailed investigation shows Russian writer and poet Dmitry Bykov, a critic of the government, suffered a poisoning attack two years ago at the hands of the same agents suspected of being involved

Internet outageFastly’s Global Internet Meltdown Could Be a Sign of Things to Come By David S. Wall Published 10 June 2021 For an hour on the morning of June, dozens of the world’s most-visited websites went offline. Together, these websites handle hundreds of millions of users. This case illustrates the fragility of an internet that’s

ExtremismThe Evolution of Extremist Groups Published 10 June 2021 Early online support for the Boogaloos, one of the groups implicated in the January 2021 attack on the Capitol, followed the same mathematical pattern as ISIS—despite the stark ideological, geographical and cultural differences between their forms of extremism, a new study finds. The findings of the

ExtremismFrankfurt Police Unit to Be Disbanded over Far-Right Chats Published 10 June 2021 The city of Frankfurt am Main and the leaders of the state of Hesse have announced they were disbanding the Frankfurt police’s Special Task Force (SEK) following the discovery of the participation of SEK officers in far-right extremist chat rooms. German police

Iron DomeIsrael Says Hamas Was Using Bombed AP Building to Jam Iron Dome Published 9 June 2021 Israel on Tuesday gave specific justification for carrying out an airstrike that destroyed Jala Tower, a Gaza high-rise building which housed the Associated Press (AP) news agency and Al Jazeera, a Qatari television network. Israel had warned people

Search & rescueTeaching Drones to Hear Screams from Catastrophe Victims Published 9 June 2021 In a disaster, time is of the essence when searching for potential victims who may be difficult to find. Unmanned aerial vehicles make the perfect platform for state-of-the-art technology allowing emergency crews to find those in need and provide situational awareness

Internet securityBroad Swath of the Web Knocked Offline by Outage Published 8 June 2021 A broad swath of the World Wide Web has been knocked offline by an outage at edge cloud CDN specialist Fastly. The company runs an “edge cloud,” which is designed to speed up loading times for websites, protect them from denial-of-service

Internet securityFastly Global Internet Outage: Why Did So Many Sites Go Down — and What Is a CDN, Anyway? By Paul Haskell-Dowland Published 8 June 2021 If you were having difficulty accessing your favorite website on Tuesday time, you’re not alone. A jaw-dropping number of major websites around the globe suddenly became unavailable with no

ImmigrantsSupreme Court: Migrants Temporarily in US Ineligible for Permanent Residency By Ken Bredemeier Published 8 June 2021 The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that 400,000 immigrants from 12 countries living in the United States for humanitarian reasons are not eligible to become permanent residents. Justice Elena Kagan, writing for the court, said that U.S.