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Twitter attack was work of young hacker pals: NYT

M M AlamJuly 18, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO: Hackers involved in the high-profile hijacking of Twitter accounts earlier this week were young pals with no links to state or organized crime, reported The New York Times. The attack, which Twitter and federal police are investigating, started with a playful message between hackers on the platform Discord, a chat service popular with […]

Twitter investigating major hack targeting high-profile users

M M AlamJuly 16, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter is investigating a massive hack in which high-profile users from Elon Musk to Joe Biden had their accounts hijacked by scammers who the social network believes targeted its employees to gain access to internal systems. Posts trying to dupe people into sending hackers the cryptocurrency Bitcoin were tweeted by the official accounts […]

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China signs UN arms trade treaty

M M AlamJuly 7, 2020

UNITED NATIONS: China signed a global pact Monday to regulate arms sales that has been rejected by the United States, the Asian power’s UN ambassador said. The Communist Party leadership’s top legislative body voted in late June to join the UN Arms Trade Treaty, designed to control the flow of weapons into conflict zones. The […]

US, Russia to resume nuclear talks, but China casts cloud

M M AlamJune 10, 2020

WASHINGTON: Russia called Tuesday on the United States to make a “positive” proposal as the powers open talks on a major disarmament treaty, warning that US insistence on including China could scuttle efforts. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov will meet in Vienna on June 22 with US envoy Marshall Billingslea to start negotiations on New […]