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1. How to frame meaningful security conversations with the corporate board As companies revamp their technology infrastructure to leverage cloud efficiencies and enable a remote workforce, cybersecurity is now mission-critical for senior executives and boards of directors. Read more » 2. CISA, FBI, NSA issue advisory on severe increase in ransomware attacks Cybersecurity authorities from Australia, the U.K., and the U.S. have published a joint advisory warning of an increase in sophisticated, high-impact ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure organizations across the world in 2021....

Warning: SPOILERS for Dark Phoenix The time has finally comes. With the release of Dark Phoenix, the entire age of Fox’s X-Men movies has come to an end, with the rights to the comic book mutants now returning to Marvel Studios. But before this X-Men series is over, the filmmakers have packed a brand new batch of Easter eggs, franchise callbacks, geeky inside jokes, and comic book references into Jean Grey’s big adventure....

Jon M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians movie makes a number of changes to the story of Kevin Kwan’s novel, especially when it comes to the ending. Hollywood has been adapting books to the big screen for decades, but how much a movie changes the events or characters of its source material varies greatly. In the case of Crazy Rich Asians, Chu’s movie - with a script by Peter Chiarelli and Adele Lim - actually stays pretty close to the book....

After a series of Australian tourism ads starring Chris Hemsworth and Danny McBride parodied a return of Crocodile Dundee, it turns out that the series is actually making a comeback. 17 years since the latest entry in the franchise, Paul Hogan confirmed that a legitimate sequel is actually in the works. In the original Crocodile Dundee, Hogan plays the fictional outback legend Mike Dundee as he plays host to a U....

Cuphead is being adapted into a cartoon series called The Cuphead Show by Netflix Animation, with the help of the creators of the game. Cuphead is a run and gun game that uses animation inspired by cartoons from the ’30s, including the works of Max Fleischer and Walt Disney. The quality of the animation of Cuphead was matched only by the brutal difficulty of its gameplay, which earned it a vocal fanbase among the gamers who love a challenge....

1. Free decryptor for past REvil ransomware victims released The experts at security firm Bitdefender have made available a universal decryptor for victims of the REvil ransomware. REvil appeared to go offline in mid-July, but its infrastructure has come back online in recent days – raising concerns that it may be about to launch new attacks. Read more » 2. AT&T lost $200 million to illegal phone unlocking scheme AT&T found that 1,900,033 cellular phones were illegally unlocked by conspirators behind this scheme, resulting in $200 million in losses due to lost payments....

Daemon X Machina reviews released earlier today and the long-awaited mech game has made its mark as a Nintendo Switch exclusive, despite having some issues along the way. Daemon X Machina is very much a game that appeals to a niche demographic in the gaming community, but its a large enough one thanks to anime series like Gundam that it has the potential to be extremely profitable if done right....

Coming today to Snapchat is a feature, “Custom Landmarkers,” that lets users build augmented reality experiences. In an effort to advance its AR platform, the social media giant is continuously working to enhance the Snapchat experience. Through the Lens Studio, Snapchatters can create landmarks for things like statues and storefronts in their communities. After being announced in December, this feature is rolling onto the mobile messaging platform today. Users can find custom landmarkers through physical Snapcodes shown at the landmark itself or through a Lens creator’s profile....

Introduction — terminology Terms and definitions can be boring, but I think it is important to start with some terminology, which will help lay out the basis for the rest of the discussion. So, I guess most of us have heard the buzz words, such as geolocation, geotagging, EXIF, location aware services etc. Let’s try to define some of them Geolocation: Geolocation can be defined as the identification of the real-world geographic location of an entity....

Crowdstrike’s total Q3 revenue was $380.1 million, a 63% increase over a year prior. Non-GAAP net income came to $41.1 million or 17 cents per share. The cybersecurity company added 1,607 net new subscription customers in the quarter for a total of 14,687 subscription customers as of October 31. That represents 75% year-over-year growth. Subscription revenue was $357 million, a 67% increase. Analysts were expecting earnings of 10 cents per share on revenue of $364....

As we reported last year, a fan named Noam Lazebnik has filed a lawsuit against Apple over its decision to split the fifth and final season of AMC’s hit show Breaking Bad into two sections, the “fifth season” and the “final season.” The distribution scheme matched up with the network’s decision to air the season over the course of two years, but fans who purchased “season 5” on iTunes were expecting to get all 16 episodes, but later learned they’d only get the first eight....

As cyberattacks continue to rise, prospects for cybersecurity roles are at an all-time high. The BLS (Bureau of Labor Statistics) projects that the number of positions in the field of cybersecurity will grow by 28% between 2016 and 2026. Stats like these serve as a solid indicator that incident analyst/responder vacancies will be plentiful for several years to come. This article will explore the career path of an incident analyst/responder using insights from the CyberSeek Cybersecurity Career Pathway tool....

Danai Gurira knows just how fortunate she is. The actress plays Okoye, a general of the Dora Milaje army in Black Panther as well as the closest advisor to Chadwick Boseman’s character T’Challa, otherwise known as Black Panther. The movie can’t stop breaking records. The Disney/Marvel flick just topped the box office for the fifth straight week, something that’s only been done in the past by the movies Avatar, The Sixth Sense and Titanic, which reigned for 15 straight weeks....

The CW’s The Lost Boys reboot pilot casts Lincoln Younes as lead vampire Benjamin. Released in 1987, the original Lost Boys film was part of a small wave of cool vampire movies that included the Kathryn Bigelow-directed Near Dark and, a little later, Francis Ford Coppola’s epic Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Stylishly directed by Joel Schumacher and featuring career boosting performances by Kiefer Sutherland and Jason Patric, the film would come to be considered an important ’80s cult item and would serve as an influence on works like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and What We Do in the Shadows....

Warner Bros. has released yet another TV spot for Justice League that reveals bits of new dialogue and new footage. Anticipation continues to rise for Zack Snyder’s upcoming superhero team-up movie, Justice League, a follow-up to the last year’s Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice, which officially launched Warner Bros.’ DC cinematic universe. The film will unite the world’s finest heroes - Superman (Henry Cavill), Batman (Ben Affleck), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Flash (Ezra Miller), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), and Cyborg (Ray Fisher) - for the first time on the big screen....

Netflix’s wildly popular The Witcher series based on the game series by CD Projekt Red of the same name, in turn, based on a series of books by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski has a pretty wide cast of characters with different personalities and abilities. Since this series is a fantasy series, after all, it only makes sense that we should file the characters into their respective Dungeons And Dragons (D&D) classes....

We’re days away from the debut of season 2 for the Marvel/Netflix series Daredevil, and the masked vigilante hero/Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) will have even more hurdles to climb in the seemingly unwinnable war against evil in Hell’s Kitchen. While much of the action will involve Daredevil’s battle with The Punisher (Jon Bernthal), fans are also looking forward to seeing Matt Murdock’s former flame Elektra Natchios (Elodie Yung) and her ninja assassin skills....

Dark Phoenix director Simon Kinberg decided to keep the storylines surrounding the Hellfire Club and Lilandra out of the upcoming X-Men film. This will be Kinberg’s second go-around at adapting Chris Claremont and John Byrne’s famous Dark Phoenix Saga comics, but unlike X-Men: The Last Stand, Dark Phoenix will put more of a focus on Jean Grey’s storyline. The upcoming film follows the X-Men as they try to save Jean (Sophie Turner), after a mission in space finds her colliding with a cosmic force that grants her unbelievable powers....

Slideshows are quite common on sites that have pictures and other images that need to be displayed to your visitors. Using jQuery, you can build a very simple slideshow using just a few lines of jQuery code. In this tutorial, we will go over a simple slideshow example built with jQuery. Feel free to use the example code shown below and build upon it so you can add more sophisticated components for your slideshow....

Carter Covington, showrunner of The CW’s Charmed reboot is stepping down, and in his place the TV show promotes husband and wife duo Craig Shapiro and Elizabeth Kruger. Covington was previously the creator of MTV’s Faking It before being tasked with reviving the late ’90s television series with the hopes of bring in both old and new fans. In 2018, Charmed received a more modern reworking of the original television series that ran from 1998-2006, which initially starred Rose McGowan, Holly Marie Combs, and Alyssa Milano....