Visit the Arctic vault holding back-ups of great works

Adrienne Murray Technology Reporter Reporting fromLongyearbyen, Norway Getty Images Norway’s Longyearbyen is the world’s northernmost town High above the Arctic Circle, the archipelago of Svalbard lies halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Frozen, mountainous, and remote, it’s home to hundreds of polar bears and a couple of sparse settlements. One of those is…

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Big tech has a big Trump problem

In the weeks after the re-election of Donald Trump, the bosses of America’s tech champions worked hard to ingratiate themselves with the returning president, congratulating him publicly and dutifully turning up to his inauguration. Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Meta, gushed that it was nice to have an administration that was “proud” of America’s tech…

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More Steganography! – SANS Internet Storm Center

I spotted another interesting file that uses, once again, steganography. It seems to be a trend (see one of my previous diaries[1]). The file is an malicious Excel sheet called blcopy.xls. Office documents are rare these days because Microsoft improved the rules to allow automatic macro execution[2]. But it does not mean that Office documents…

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FC Barcelona Legend Suarez Praises Lamine Yamal

FC Barcelona legend Luis Suarez praised teenage superstar Lamine Yamal ahead of his current employer … More Inter Miami kicking off its Club World Cup campaign. Getty Images FC Barcelona legend Luis Suarez praised teenage superstar Lamine Yamal ahead of his current employer Inter Miami kicking off its Club World Cup campaign. After making his…

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