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FBI Urges People to Reboot Routers to Fend Off Russian Malware

allan7 years ago02 mins

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The FBI is recommending owners of small office and home office routers reboot the devices to temporarily disrupt the malware and aid the potential identification of infected devices linked to Russia that has infected hundreds of thousands of internet routers. The culprits are using VPNFilter malware that is able to perform…

Minn. Man Charged With Sending Threatening Email to Vice Pres. Joe Biden, Gov and Senator

allan14 years ago14 years ago03 mins

By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A 45-year-old Minnesota man was indicted Thursday for hacking into his neighbor’s wireless router Internet service and sending threats to the vice president and the governor and senator from Minnesota from email under the neighbor’s name. Authorities said Barry Vincent Ardolf was charged with two counts of aggravated identity theft, one…