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Sep 9, 2021

Hackers leak passwords for 500,000 Fortinet VPN accounts

Posted by in category: cybercrime/malcode

A threat actor has leaked a list of almost 500,000 Fortinet VPN login names and passwords that were allegedly scraped from exploitable devices last summer.

While the threat actor states that the exploited Fortinet vulnerability has since been patched, they claim that many VPN credentials are still valid.

This leak is a serious incident as the VPN credentials could allow threat actors to access a network to perform data exfiltration, install malware, and perform ransomware attacks.

Sep 9, 2021

Mastercard makes a big bet on crypto, buying blockchain analytics start-up CipherTrace

Posted by in categories: bitcoin, business, cryptocurrencies, economics, law enforcement

Mastercard has agreed to acquire blockchain analytics start-up CipherTrace, in the latest sign of how major companies are warming to cryptocurrencies.

The payments giant said Thursday it entered into an agreement to buy CipherTrace for an undisclosed amount. Based in Menlo Park, California, CipherTrace develops tools that help businesses and law enforcement root out illicit digital currency transactions. The company’s competitors include New York-based Chainalysis and London start-up Elliptic.

“Digital assets have the potential to reimagine commerce, from everyday acts like paying and getting paid to transforming economies, making them more inclusive and efficient,” Ajay Bhalla, president of cyber and intelligence at Mastercard, said in a statement. “With the rapid growth of the digital asset ecosystem comes the need to ensure it is trusted and safe.”

Sep 9, 2021

Huge new fossil species uncovered in Canada

Posted by in category: evolution

Half-billion-year-old critter belonged to an extinct group of animals.


Palaeontologists have dug up a brand new animal species from the Cambrian era, more than 500 million years ago. Remarkably, Titanokorys gainesi was about half a metre long – which is giant compared to most of the other, pinky-finger-sized species alive at the time.

“The sheer size of this animal is absolutely mind-boggling,” says Jean-Bernard Caron, from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Canada. “This is one of the biggest animals from the Cambrian period ever found.”

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Sep 9, 2021

After copying the helicopter, China turned to copy the US anti-aircraft missile

Posted by in category: transportation

Recently, the PLA has put into service a new low-altitude air defense system (SHORAD), which looks similar to the recently deployed US SHORAD Stryker defence system.

According to a video released by China State Television (CCTV), China’s new SHORAD system, consisting of a 35mm anti-aircraft ԍuɴ along with two surface-to-air missiles, is mounted on an armored vehicle chassis. steel 8×8 wheels.

Sep 9, 2021

MRNA cancer therapy now in human trials after shrinking mouse tumours

Posted by in category: biotech/medical

A cancer treatment that uses messenger RNA to launch an immune attack on cancer cells can completely shrink tumours in mice and is now being tested in people.

Messenger RNAs – or mRNAs – are molecules that instruct cells to make proteins. They have risen to fame with the roll out of mRNA covid-19 vaccines.

Sep 9, 2021

Dr. Marina Ezcurra, Ph.D. — Exploring The Gut Microbiota-Brain Axis In Health, Disease, and Aging

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension, neuroscience

Exploring The Gut Microbiota-Brain Axis In Health, Disease, and Aging — Dr. Marina Ezcurra, Ph.D. University of Kent.


Dr. Marina Ezcurra (https://marinaezcurralab.com/) is a Lecturer in the Biology of Aging, and NeuroBiology, at the School of BioSciences, at the University of Kent, UK (https://www.kent.ac.uk/biosciences/people/2081/ezcurra-marina).

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Sep 9, 2021

Gene self-correction in ‘chromosome caps’ can beat mutations, help prevent blood cancers

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, life extension

Mentions telomeres.

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People with rare disorders that cause shortened telomeres—protective caps that sit at the end of chromosomes—may be more likely to have blood cancers such as leukemia or myelodyplastic syndrome. Now, Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists have discovered several “self-correcting” genetic mutations in bone marrow that may protect such patients from these cancers.

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Sep 9, 2021

Tesla Locks Down Patent for Laser Windshield Wipers

Posted by in category: futurism

Is this the gimmick of all gimmicks?

Sep 9, 2021

Light-Based Quantum Computer Exceeds Fastest Classical Supercomputers

Posted by in categories: quantum physics, supercomputing

Circa 2020


The setup of lasers and mirrors effectively “solved” a problem far too complicated for even the largest traditional computer system.

Sep 9, 2021

Quantum Computing: Triple Qubit Entanglement Achieved in Research Breakthrough

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics

Another step on the road towards quantum scalability.