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17 victims identified in Indonesia's Sriwijaya plane crash

Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee (KNKT) investigators inspect debris found in the waters around the location where a Sriwijaya Air passenger jet crashed, Indonesia, January 15,

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Flash floods wreak havoc in southern Tanzania

VCG At least one person has been killed, 39 made homeless, 117 houses damaged and 315 other houses submerged in water by flash floods due to heavy rains in Tanzania's southern region of Mtwara

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End of year brings end to coronavirus relief payments in Brazil

02:30 In Brazil, coronavirus deaths are approaching 200,000.It ranks second only to the United States in the number of people who have fallen victim to COVID-19.And now millions of peo

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Eritrea reports first COVID-19 death

VCG Image Eritrea said on Wednesday that the Red Sea nation has recorded its first death related to COVID-19.The victim was a 50-year-old man receiving treatment for COVID-19 illness at a loca

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With a $50B run rate in reach, can anyone stop AWS?

AWS, Amazon’s flourishing cloud arm, has been growing at a rapid clip for more than a decade. An early public cloud infrastructure vendor, it has taken advantage of first-to-market status to become th

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UAE target of cyber attacks after Israel deal, official says

The United Arab Emirates was the target of cyber attacks after establishing formal ties with Israel, the Gulf Arab state’s cyber security head said on Sunday.The UAE in

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US Fertility says patient data was stolen in a ransomware attack

U.S. Fertility, one of the largest networks of fertility clinics in the United States, has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack and that data was taken.The company was formed in May as a partne

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‘Resident Evil’ game maker Capcom confirms data breach after ransomware attack

Capcom, the Japanese game maker behind the Resident Evil and Street Fighter franchises, has confirmed that hackers stole customer data and files from its internal network following a ransomware attac

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COVID-19: Number of UK coronavirus deaths passes 50,000

The number of people who have died with coronavirus in the UK has passed 50,000, according to government figures which highlight the devastating impact of the virus on the country. /VCG The nu

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Cyber threat startup Cygilant hit by ransomware

Cygilant, a threat detection cybersecurity company, has confirmed a ransomware attack.Christina Lattuca, Cygilant’s chief financial officer, said in a statement that the company was “awar

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Alex Navalny poisoned with Novichok, German tests reveal

Navalny, above, has been a staunch critic of Russia's president Vladimir Putin. /Mladen Antonov/AFP File photo New tests have shown that Russia's opposition leader Alexei Navalnywas poisoned b

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Decrypted: Tesla’s ransomware near miss, Palantir’s S-1 risk factors

Another busy week in cybersecurity.In case you missed it: A widely used messaging app used by over a million protesters has several major security flaws; a little-known loophole has let the DMV sell d

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Android security bug let malicious apps siphon off private user data

A security vulnerability in Android could have allowed malicious apps to siphon off sensitive data from other apps on the same device.App security startup Oversecured found the flaw in Google’s

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Elon Musk confirms Tesla was target of foiled ransomware attack

Elon Musk called an attempted cyberattack against Tesla “serious,” a comment that confirms the company was the target of a foiled ransomware attempt at its massive factory near Reno, Nevad

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Argentine Air Force pilot dies after ejecting from fighter-bomber

An Argentine Air Force (FAA) pilot died on Wednesday after ejecting from an A-4AR Fightinghawk fighter-bomber jet that crashed in the central province of Cordoba. One

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The coronavirus: Uganda registers second death

A man washes his hands before entering a shopping arcade in Kampala, Uganda, July 22, 2020. /Xinhua Uganda reported a second COVID-19 death, the ministry of health said on Sunday.According to

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One killed in shooting during anti-racism protest in U.S. state of Texas

One man was killed in a shooting during a "Black Lives Matter" protest in downtown Austin in the U.S. state of Texas on Saturday, authorities said. "One adult male vic