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Instagram is taking down posts supporting slain Iranian…

AbusesJanuary 13, 2020

Enlarge / Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in 2013. MEHDI GHASEMI/ISNA/AFP via Getty Images Instagram has been removing posts supporting Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian military leader who was killed by an American strike on January 3, CNN…

Indian Supreme Court finds 150-day Internet blackout in…

AbusesJanuary 10, 2020

Enlarge / Indian prime minister Narendra Modi addresses the United Nations General Assembly in 2019. Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Indian region of Kashmir has had most Internet service blacked out since August. The government of Narendra…

Firefox gets patch for critical 0-day that’s being…

AbusesJanuary 9, 2020

Mozilla has released a new version of Firefox that fixes an actively exploited zero-day that could allow attackers to take control of users' computers. In an advisory, Mozilla rated the vulnerability critical and said it…

Contractor admits planting logic bombs in his software…

AbusesDecember 19, 2019

Getty Images | ullstein bild Many IT workers worry their positions will become obsolete as changes in hardware, software, and computing tasks outstrip their skills. A former contractor for Siemens concocted a remedy for that—plant…

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