Russia-based biz targeted in Uncle Sam’s crack down on cyber-extortion The US Treasury on Tuesday sanctioned virtual cryptocurrency exchange Suex OTC for handling financial transactions for ransomware operators, an intervention that’s part of a broad US government effort to disrupt online extortion and related cyber-crime.… …read more Source:: Register

More than 60 endangered African penguins were recently found dead, all with multiple bee stings and no other external injuries, according to officials in a coastal city in South Africa where the birds regularly migrate. From a report: Sixty-three dead African penguins were found Friday at the Boulders Penguin Colony, in Simon’s Town, about 25…

From macro skills to ProRes video, there are some good reasons for photographers to crave the iPhone 13 Pro. …read more Source:: CNet

“Time to find out who in your family secretly ran … [a] QAnon hellhole,” said attackers who affiliated themselves with the hacktivist collective Anonymous, noting that Epik had laughable security. …read more Source:: Threatpost

The Biden administration plans a fresh campaign against ransomware attacks through sanctions to cut off criminals’ cryptocurrency pipelines, and it urged companies to report extortion attempts and better protect themselves from them. From a report: Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo told reporters that the sanctions would be imposed on Suex, a cryptocurrency transferring service that’s…

Platform and individuals charged in first case of its kind US financial watchdogs have launched legal action against a cannabis-related investment scheme said to be the first case involving crowdfunding regulation.… …read more Source:: TheRegister

If you ever feel a pang of shame because you’ve been reusing the same snippets of code in your projects for years, don’t. Even the big names do it, as evidenced by the fact that code written to govern flickering lights back in 1996 for Quake is still being used in AAA titles like 2020’s…

The rover will head for one of the coldest areas in our solar system to look for water. …read more Source:: CNet

Even older Apple Watches get new messaging tools, portrait-mode watch faces and a Mindfulness app. …read more Source:: CNet

On the day Apple released iOS 15, a Spanish security researcher disclosed an iPhone lock screen bypass that can be exploited to grant attackers access to a user’s notes. From a report: In an interview with The Record, Jose Rodriguez said he published details about the lock screen bypass after Apple downplayed similar lock screen…