Month: February 2022

A Large Area Soft X-ray Spectrometer (CLASS), a payload on-board Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter, has detected solar proton events which significantly increase the radiation exposure to humans in space, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said. The instrument on January 18 also recorded coronal mass ejections (CMEs), a powerful stream of ionised material and magnetic fields,
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Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a previously undocumented and stealthy custom malware called SockDetour that targeted U.S.-based defense contractors with the goal of being used as a secondary implant on compromised Windows hosts. “SockDetour is a backdoor that is designed to remain stealthily on compromised Windows servers so that it can serve as
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Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. This week, overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Meta (formerly Facebook) unveiled its ambitious plan for a “metaverse” powered by AI. During a presentation, CEO Mark Zuckerberg spotlighted several of the company’s related efforts, including an AI system that lets users
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Even though the Russian military action in Ukraine has heightened tensions between Moscow and the US, the two sides will continue to cooperate on operations of the International Space Station (ISS), NASA said. The US space agency has said that its collaborative operations with the Russian space agency Roscosmos will continue as normal. Russia and
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Taiwan will join “democratic countries” in putting sanctions on Russia over the invasion of Ukraine, the government said on Friday, with the world’s largest contract chipmaker TMSC adding it would comply with all export control rules. The crisis is being watched closely in Taiwan, which China claims as its own territory and which has faced
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The Russian government on Thursday warned of cyber attacks aimed at domestic critical infrastructure operators, as the country’s full-blown invasion of Ukraine enters the second day. In addition to cautioning of the “threat of an increase in the intensity of computer attacks,” Russia’s National Computer Incident Response and Coordination Center said that the “attacks can
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Join today’s leading executives online at the Data Summit on March 9th. Register here. Are you thinking about getting a new job, but you’re not entirely sure where to start? We know how daunting it can be, which is why we’re here to help as much as possible. If you’re on the hunt, then this
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