Dan Adams reports:
Marijuana shops across the country, including seven medical dispensaries in Massachusetts, are being affected by the apparent hack of a sales and inventory system widely used in the cannabis industry.[…]MJ Freeway, a Denver company whose “seed-to-sale” tracking software is used by hundreds of marijuana companies to comply with state regulations, said its main servers and backup system each went down Sunday morning and remained offline as of Monday afternoon.[…]A spokeswoman for MJ Freeway said the outage, first reported by theindustry publication Marijuana Business Daily, was the work of unknown hackers.[…]Ward said encryption prevented the hackers from reading data about MJ Freeway’s retail clients, which include five nonprofits in charge of seven medical dispensaries in Massachusetts, or those shops’ patients and customers. But the attackers did succeed in corrupting, or garbling, the data and making it unusable. The company has not received a demand...(continued)Marijuana dispensaries hit by hack of tracking software system
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Home Minister Rajnath Singh checks cyber security measures
ehackingnews.com - In view of increasing cyber attacks on government agencies specially on financial institutions, home minister Rajnath Singh asked agencies on Tuesday to keep check on cyber menace and strengthen surveillance and legal structure for to fight against cyber crimes. On Tuesday a high level meeting...
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New Antibody Attacks 99% of HIV Strains - Slashdot
science.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from BBC: Scientists have engineered an antibody that attacks 99% of HIV strains and can prevent infection in primates. It is built to attack three critical parts of the virus -- making it harder for HIV to resist its effects. The work is a collaboration betwee...
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Hackers Using iCloud's Find My iPhone Feature To Remotely Lock Macs, Demand Ransom Payments - Slashdot
apple.slashdot.org - AmiMoJo shares a report from Mac Rumors: Over the last day or two, several Mac users appear to have been locked out of their machines after hackers signed into their iCloud accounts and initiated a remote lock using Find My iPhone. With access to an iCloud user's username and password, Find My iP...
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Court Rules That Imported Solar Panels Are Bad For US Manufacturing - Slashdot
hardware.slashdot.org - The International Trade Commission has ruled that American companies are being hurt by cheap solar panels from overseas, providing an opportunity for President Donald Trump to tax imports from countries like China. The Verge reports: Today's unanimous decision ruled that the companies SolarWorld...
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Microsoft and Canonical Make Custom Linux Kernel - Slashdot
linux.slashdot.org - Billly Gates writes: Microsoft and Canonical's relationship is getting closer besides Ubuntu for Windows. Azure will soon be offering more customized Ubuntu containers with a MS optimized kernel. Uname -r will show 4.11.0-1011-azure for Ubuntu cloud based 16.04 LTS. If you want the non MS kernel...
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Google Experiment Tests Top 5 Browsers, Finds Safari Riddled With Security Bugs - Slashdot
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader writes from a report via Bleeping Computer: The Project Zero team at Google has created a new tool for testing browser DOM engines and has unleashed it on today's top five browsers, finding most bugs in Apple's Safari. Results showed that Safari had by far the worst DOM engine...