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Stuxnet is an infamous example — perhaps the granddaddy of critical infrastructure attacks — and is often seen as a primer for those to come. Stuxnet was a computer worm that infected the centrifuges within an Iranian nuclear plant. At the time, control units were not connected to any external system like the internet. Once installed, the worm wreaked havoc, destroyed the centrifuges and shut down operations. Stuxnet attacked a contained system, allegedly using a USB middleman to implant the malware....

Marty Funkhouser is one of Larry David’s closest friends on Curb Your Enthusiasm. A family man through and through, Funkhouser is dedicated to maintaining customs, preserving relationships, and being loyal. He often butts heads with the insensitive and obdurate Larry, yet he always forgives Larry for his various gaffes. The actor who plays Funkhouser, Bob Einstein, died suddenly from cancer in 2019. He was an accomplished comedy writer and actor who also had a recurring role on ArrestedDevelopment....

Sylvester Stallone reunites with the original turtles who play Rocky Balboa’s pets Cuff and Link in the latest Creed 2 set photo. Longtime fans of the franchise know the animals as two of Rocky’s oldest friends, purchased from Adrian at the pet shop decades ago. Their presence in the 1976 original led to a humorous line where Rocky wished Cuff and Link could sing and dance so he didn’t have to box to earn money....

Two of the biggest names in the crypto arena, Coinbase and FTX, both spent big on ad spots during the game. As of Monday morning, it’s looking like those ads had their desired effects. Kings of Crypto, book review: How Coinbase helped to reshape the future of financeCoachella to auction 10 lifetime festival passes as NFTs with FTX One of the most talked-about ads of the night was Coinbase’s, although you may not have realized what the ad was even for until the very end of it....

The question of morality within the narrative of The Handmaid’s Tale is a fascinating one because the entire story focuses on a group of characters who exist within a society that is truly, genuinely evil. Most people living in a normal world will never have to question or challenge their own morality, and the stakes of their own choices and behavior will be comparatively low. In Gilead, the stakes are literally life or death, so even the most trivial choices matter....

MTV Studios - a new production unit of the MTV Network - has announced a return to the good old days, as they bring back several classic MTV television series. This revival effort will include the animated high school slice-of-life comedy Daria, the ground-breaking reality series The Real World and a live-action version of the classic action Anime Aeon Flux. The official announcement by MTV Studios suggests that Viacom - owners of MTV and their extensive library of content - is trying to ride the recent wave of 1990s nostalgia that has brought about the revival of television series such as Roseanne and Charmed....

Funko has revealed the latest in their inimitable brand of pop culture figures with a Deluxe Pop! figurine of Darth Vader flying his distinctive TIE Fighter. The toy manufacturer has turned its cutesy style on several big blockbusters this year, unveiling confusingly adorable Pop! figures of the alien Neomorph from Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant, as well as variants of Diana Prince from Patty Jenkins’ highly anticipated Wonder Woman. Funko joined in this year’s celebrations of the Star Wars 40th anniversary by releasing a celebratory line of Pop Vinyls looking back through the saga’s history, and now the company has unveiled a brand new Deluxe collectable that goes back to one of the most iconic moments in the franchise....

Superman and Lois are joining The CW’s Arrowverse lineup next season, but Crisis on Infinite Earths already unleashed a major plot twist ahead of its premiere. The CW’s 5-hour event became the franchise’s biggest adventure as the DC TV shows changed the status quo to move the shared universe forward. Based on the iconic DC comic series of the same name, Crisis on Infinite Earths brought the current series together onto the same world known as Earth-Prime....

In Australia, the first that signalled its plans to enter the market was the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) when it announced in November it would begin offering customers the ability to buy, sell, and hold crypto assets through its mobile Commbank app. A pilot program of this feature is currently underway. Speaking to ZDNet, CBA head of blockchain and digital assets Sophie Gilder said the strategic move for the bank to roll out crypto services is being driven by the growing uptake of cryptocurrency by its customers....

The well-known jailbreak application Cydia has received a fairly notable update today, bringing the utility to version 1.1.10. The new version of the app makes it much easier to manage sources and packages, and brings a refreshed iOS 7-style icon as well as other fixes. Most notably, much of the functionality within the Manage tab has been dispersed to other parts of the app. Previously, there were three sections inside Manage, but the tab has been renamed Installed and simply houses what was previously in the “Packages” section....

Warning: The following contains SPOILERS for Crisis on Infinite Earths. The Arrowverse’s Crisis on Infinite Earths reversed one of the unintended consequences that The Flash’s time-travel inflicted upon Arrow’s Lyla Michaels and John Diggle. The 5-part crossover event brought back Sara Diggle, John and Lyla’s infant daughter, who had been erased from existence and replaced with a son named John Jr. as a side-effect of “Flashpoint.” The season 3 premiere of The Flash found Barry Allen uncharacteristically happy, living a normal life with his still-living parents....

We’ve covered numerous noteworthy Cydia tweaks over time and most of them tackle the iPhone’s user interface, letting you customize your iOS gadget to death. Interestingly, only a handful of tweaks mess with the stock Maps app in iOS, which is strange considering that the iOS mapping experience, although great, in many areas pales in comparison to Android. The Speed for Maps tweak (via Funky Space Money), as the name suggests, adds a cool speedometer icon to the Maps app that feels as if it were integral to the experience....

Overview Every organization fears losing its critical, confidential, highly restricted or restricted data. Fear of losing data amplifies for an organization if their critical data is hosted outside their premises, say onto a cloud model. To address this fear or issue that organizations face, a security concept known as “Data Loss Prevention” has evolved, and it comes in product flavors in the market. The most famous among them are Symantec, McAfee, Web-sense, etc....

Crisis on Infinite Earths, the 5-part Arrowverse crossover event, is set to resume on January 14 with the final two parts of the game-changing storyline. But already in the first three parts of the multi-show event has so much happened. From the huge list of DC cameos and appearances from other films and TV shows to major ramifications for the Arrowverse as a whole, TPTB has made it very clear that they are not joking around with this story....

The first episode of Crisis on Infinite Earths confirmed that Tyler Hoechlin’s Superman has already faced Doomsday. Hoechlin’s version of the Man of Steel has won viewers over on Supergirl, to the extent that The CW has now signed off on a spinoff starring Hoechlin’s Superman and Elizabeth Tulloch as Lois Lane. Supergirl season 5, episode 9 sees the return of Superman and Lois Lane in the first part of Crisis on Infinite Earths....

1. Trend of states prohibiting ransomware payments is spreading Increasingly, state legislatures have made it illegal to use public funds to pay ransom in ransomware cases. This reflects an ideological view that, if everyone agrees not to pay ransom, ransomware attacks will subside because they are unlikely to be successful for the ransomware threat actor. Read more » 2. U.S. DoJ charges CEO for dealing $1B in fake Cisco gear Fraudster allegedly passed off refurbished, modified Cisco equipment as new to hospitals, schools, and even the military....

Well, there’s no truly decentralized, user-controlled music streaming service yet. But it’s kind of the idea behind doubleTwists’s new CloudPlayer app that’s “launching on Android first” (iOS version should be tagging along soon?). doubleTwist CloudPlayer lets you hack your own music streaming service that’s currently limited to Android and the storage space you have on Dropbox/Google Drive. You upload your entire music collection to either/both cloud storage services (which can take a couple of hours to a couple of days), then get the Android app, connect respective accounts and let CloudPlayer do its thing....

While CSI: Crime Scene Investigation had enough drama between burglaries, violent crimes and just about every employee being framed, abducted or offed during the show’s run, writers opted to add in more drama with a few relationships. It’s impossible to throw a bunch of humans together and expect otherwise, and as with any popular TV show, some of the relationships worked really well while others flopped or worse. Some managed to do both....

Speaking at Code Conference Wednesday night, Apple’s head of online services Eddy Cue took a swipe at the current state of television and presented his take on where the future of that industry lies. According to Cue, Apple TV sales have risen in recent years and over 20 million of the set-top box have been sold to date. Cue says that the device is billion-dollar business now and is expected to continue growing....

Dare Me is a new show on USA that shows an alternate high school reality. It is based in an Ohio rural town and focuses on a high school cheer team whose goal is to go to regionals. A new coach is hired, but there is an air of mystery hiding in every dark corner of the show. Many have raved about the show and its storyline, while others believe it missed the mark....