https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-51564905

A malicious link sent to staff at the facility eventually caused the shutdown “of the entire pipeline asset”.

It was so severe in part because the organisation was not prepared for such an attack, the DHS statement said.

Often, the “operational network” which runs computers in the factory is separated from the office IT – but not in this case, meaning the ransomware infection was allowed to spread.

https://holzschu.github.io/Carnets_Jupyter/

A standalone Jupyter notebooks implementation for iOS.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-51520622

A document that appears to give the most powerful insight yet into how China determined the fate of hundreds of thousands of Muslims held in a network of internment camps has been seen by the BBC.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/why-you-cant-bank-on-backups-to-fight-ransomware-anymore/

https://www.bt.no/nyheter/i/8morAx/databrudd-stenger-janusfabrikken

For andre dag på rad står produksjonen på tekstilfabrikken i Arna etter et kabelbrudd hos IT-leverandøren Evry.

Hele produksjonen er avhengig av serverne som tekstilbedriften nå har mistet kontakten med.

https://www.techmeme.com/200206/p26#a200206p26

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a30784690/chernobyl-fungus/

How can this fungus process radiation in this way? Because it has tons of very dark melanin pigment that absorbs radiation and processes it in a harmless way to produce energy.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/researcher-backdoor-mechanism-discovered-in-devices-using-hisilicon-chips/

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/5/21123491/philips-hue-bulb-hack-hub-firmware-patch-update

Might want to check if you’ve got firmware 1935144040

https://www.cyberscoop.com/facbook-facial-recognition-lawsuit-illinois/

Facebook’s “Tag Suggestions” service

The case accuses Facebook of breaking privacy law in Illinois by mining information about people in the state without their consent, then failing to disclose how long that data would be stored