Four women, including TV star, thought they were investing in a software business. It was a scam. Now the perp's going to jail [Fri Mar 12 2021]

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'Predator' sent down for eight years after pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars

 
 

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Four women, including TV star, thought they were investing in a software business. It was a scam. Now the perp's going to jail

'Predator' sent down for eight years after pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars

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UK Space Agency will pay a new CEO £125,000 to run non-existent space programme

Also: NASA to send another astronaut up in a Soyuz, Mars Express has its head in the clouds

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Memo to scientists. Looking for intelligent life? Have you tried checking for worlds with a lot of industrial pollution?

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It's wild the lengths Facebook engineers will go to find new ways to show you inane ads about tat: This time, AR...

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India boosts space program budget by 46 percent

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Microsoft's GitHub under fire after disappearing proof-of-concept exploit for critical Microsoft Exchange vuln

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This Netgear SOHO switch has 15 – count 'em! – vulns, which means you need to upgrade the firmware... now

One of them is a critical RCE bug

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ZIPX files that aren't: Keep a weather eye out for disguised malware in email attachments

Especially if you're routinely handling RAR files

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UK to introduce new laws and a code of practice for police wanting to rifle through mobile phone messages

But there's a lot more to worry about in new Bill, say campaigners

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Å nei! Norway's Stortinget struck by Microsoft Exchange malware

'Data has been extracted' as Swiss-cheese servers are exploited

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Working hard to secure your network perimeter? The cybercrims will be pleased…

Because that’s not where the threat is anymore

Now it is F5’s turn to reveal critical security bugs – and the Feds were quick to sound the alarm on these BIG-IP flaws

Remote code execution, denial of service, API abuse possible. Meanwhile, FBI pegs China for Exchange hacks

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Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it

Mozillians formulate 'prime' directive for browser's comeback following psychological study

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ServiceNow bakes more ML, low code into Quebec release to push itself as all-encompassing workflow layer

But questions remain over its enterprise app credentials

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The first rule of ERP? Don't talk about ERP: App-maker IFS reckons market has moved on

'It's something that we, as an industry, invented' but all customers wanted were end-to-end business processes

Another Windows 10 patch that breaks printers ups ante to full-on Blue Screen of Death

Microsoft's rigorous testing at work

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GitLab latest to ditch 'master' as default initial branch name: It's now simply called 'main'

Only for new projects, but beware the hardcoded references

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You wouldn’t know my new database, she goes to another school: Oracle boasts of earthshattering tech the outside world cannot see

Plus: Ellison ramps up SAP trash-talking. At least some things are the same in 2021

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