Articles by Krishnendu Banerjee

Seattle Firm Designs Nuclear Rocket Engine That Can Take Crew to Mars in 3 Months

Developed by USNC-Tech, the Nuclear Thermal Propulsion engine could be more efficient and reliable than chemical combustion engines and safer than previous nuclear rocket designs

Oct 25, 2020

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UK Carried Out Secret Cyberattacks on Russia in Retaliation, Says Former National Security Adviser

Following the Novichok poisonings in 2018, the U.K. launched cyberattacks on Russian interests in retaliation as per the former cabinet secretary Mark Philip Sedwill

Oct 25, 2020

Cybersecurity

Apparent Pro-Trump Hacker Eris Loris Hits Among Us Game with Spam Attack After AOC's Popular Twitch Stream

The hacker with the name of Eris Loris managed to hack into Among Us chat boxes and posted spam messages asking the gamers to vote for Trump

Oct 24, 2020

Cybersecurity Us presidential election

US Treasury Imposes Sanctions Against Russian Research Institute Over Triton Malware Attack

The Triton malware was allegedly developed by Russia's Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics for a cyberattack on a Saudi oil refinery and U.S. utility companies

Oct 24, 2020

Cybersecurity

State-Backed Russian Hackers Stole Sensitive Data from US Government Networks, Says Intelligence Report

A day after it was revealed that hackers from Russia and Iran obtained U.S. voter information, CISA and FBI in a joint statement said that a state-backed Russian group stole data

Oct 23, 2020

Cybersecurity Us presidential election

Russian Govt Agencies Blame Toxic Algae Bloom for Kamchatka's Environmental Disaster

As per reports from environmental agencies, around 95 percent of the marine lives in Russia's Kamchatka was wiped out due to ocean pollution

Oct 23, 2020

Fukushima's Radioactive Water Containing Carbon-14 Can Damage Human DNA, Says Greenpeace

The treated water that will be released into the Pacific Ocean, claimed to contain only tritium but Greenpeace found that it could not filter out Carbon-14, making it hazardous

Oct 23, 2020

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Touches Down on Asteroid Bennu for Historic Sample Collection

Asteroid Bennu is believed to be formed during the formation of the solar system some 4.5 billion years ago and it might contain the building blocks of life

Oct 21, 2020

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Beware! Telegram Channel Creating Deepfake Nude Images of Thousands of Women

Thousands of users have been using the Telegram bot to create deepfake photo-realistic nude image of women using pictures from social media sites.

Oct 21, 2020

Artificial intelligence

Hackers Maybe Using 63 Spoofed Census Bureau Domains for Phishing Attack, Warns FBI

FBI and Homeland Security have found 63 newly registered domains that mimic the Census Bureau's website address that can be used for a phishing attack

Oct 20, 2020

Cybersecurity

Hackers Gain Access to Banking Apps, Steal Over NIS 500,000 From Dozens of Israelis

Police arrested 16 suspects including a couple who managed the operation that targeted elderly people's bank accounts gaining access to phone plan

Oct 20, 2020

Cybersecurity

Facebook Set to Create 'Biggest Dark Web' With End-To-End Encryption, Says Australian Minister

Facebook wants to introduce end-to-end encryption to Messenger and Instagram messaging services to secure users' privacy but the plans have met with opposition

Oct 20, 2020

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Security Flaws in Discord's Desktop App Allowed Hackers to Take Over System

Japanese Bug Bounty hunter Masato Kinugawa found three bugs in Discord's desktop app that allowed remote execution attacks (RCE)

Oct 19, 2020

Cybersecurity

North Korea Treats Detainees 'Less Than Animals' as They Are Tortured, Abused and Raped

North Korean detainees are kept in unhygienic condition with regular beatings while women are not given menstrual pads and are to use socks instead

Oct 19, 2020

Rupert Murdoch, Owner of Conservative News Outlets Including Fox News, Predicts Landslide Biden Victory

Murdoch, who successfully predicted Barack Obama's landslide victory in 2008, is unhappy with Trump's handling of the Coronavirus pandemic

Oct 18, 2020

Are Adenovirus-Based Coronavirus Vaccines Safe? Unexpected Side-Effects During Trials Raise Concerns

Both AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson's Coronavirus vaccine candidates were based on adenovirus vector and were paused after a few volunteers fell sick

Oct 18, 2020

Coronavirus

Elon Musk Pushes SpaceX to Send Starship Rocket to Mars in 2024 Before Sending Humans

The Starship rocket which is currently under development and testing has an ambitious target of sending an unmanned mission to Mars in the 2024 launch window

Oct 18, 2020

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Nokia Gets Contract from NASA to Set Up 4G Network on Moon, When 5G is Available; Here's Why

As NASA wants to return to the Moon by 2024 through the Artemis mission, it wants Nokia to set up a 4G communication network for reliable and efficient communication

Oct 17, 2020

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Chinese Hackers Targeting Biden Campaign Impersonating McAfee Antivirus, Says Google

Google's security research team identified the attacks on Joe Biden's campaign by Chinese hacker group APT31 and informed the FBI about it

Oct 17, 2020

Cybersecurity

Breakthrough: Scientists Discover Mysterious Material That Is Superconductive at Room Temperature

The material was created combining carbon, hydrogen and sulfur that became superconductive at around 15 degrees Celsius temperature

Oct 16, 2020

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