BOSTON (AP) – GPS device maker Garmin Ltd. acknowledged Monday that it was the victim of a cyber attack last week. which encrypted some of its systems, disconnecting its services for monitoring fitness and pilot navigation. He said the systems will be fully restored in the coming days. On an …
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Chinese students in Australia are being tricked into faking their own kidnapping
Eight students in the state of New South Wales (NSW) were the targets of “virtual kidnapping” scams this year, with foreign relatives paying a total of A $ 3.2 million ($ 2.3 million) in ransom, Police said in a statement. In one case, the father of a 22-year-old Chinese student …
Read More »Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine enters final testing phase, as researchers dose first study volunteer
Moderna Therapeutics and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced today that the researchers had injected the first volunteer into the first US coronavirus vaccine to reach the final stage of Phase 3 testing. That person received the vaccine at 6:45 a.m. EST in Savannah, Geo., Said …
Read More »Miocene fossil from Africa provides new evidence of the origin of American crocodiles | Paleontology
A team of paleontologists from Italy and Spain have compared the only well-preserved skull of Crocodylus checchiai, an extinct species of crocodile that lived in what is now Libya about 7 million years ago (Miocene epoch), to those of the four species of living crocodiles in the Americas, and discovered …
Read More »Former UGA CB Deandre Baker was included in the commissioner’s list of exemptions
Former Georgia star cornerback Deandre Baker has been included on NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s exemption list on Monday. Former Prize Winner Jim Thorpe was drafted 30th overall by the New York Giants in the 2019 NFL Draft, but was charged with four counts of armed robbery with a firearm and …
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