August, 2019

The vulnerabilities can be exploited by sending unpatched servers Web requests that contain a special sequence of characters, researchers at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas said earlier this month. The pre-authorization file-reading vulnerabilities resided in the Fortigate SSL VPN, installed on about 480,000 servers, and the competing Pulse Secure SSL VPN, installed on about 50,000 machines, researchers from Devcore Security Consulting reported.

The Devcore researchers discovered other critical vulnerabilities in both products. These make it possible for attackers to, among other things, remotely execute malicious code and change passwords. Patches for the Fortigate VPN became available in May and in April for Pulse Secure...

"China’s will to defend the core interests of the country and the fundamental interests of the people is indestructible, and will not fear any challenge. History will prove that the side on the path of fairness and justice will have the last laugh."...

Paul Page has alleged Maxwell and other female visitors would make trips to the royal household and would rarely sign the Palace’s official gate book. He also claims royal ­protection officers would break the rules by driving them home and the Duke of York would reportedly become abusive if he was challenged. The bombshell allegations were made in 2009 during Page's trial when he was accused of a £3million investment fraud. He also claims royal ­protection officers would break the rules by driving them home and the Duke of York would reportedly become abusive if he was challenged. The bombshell allegations were made in 2009 during Page's trial when he was accused of a £3million investment fraud.

Two women inspired by radical Islam pleaded guilty in New York City on Friday to teaching and distributing information about the manufacture and use of an explosive, destructive device and weapon of mass destruction, federal prosecutors said. Asia Siddiqui and Noelle Velentzas, both U.S. citizens in their 30s from the borough of Queens, face up to 20 years in prison when they are sentenced. U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue said in a statement the defendants studied some of the most deadly attacks in U.S. history as a blueprint for their plans to kill American law enforcement and military personnel.

Nuclear powered submarines Tula and Yuri Dolgoruky launch ballistic missiles Sineva and Bulava from Circumpolar region of the Arctic Ocean and the Barents Sea #MoD #Navy #Submarine #Sineva #Bulava #Ballistic_Missiles #Barents_Sea pic.twitter.com/w1TRwImRva

— Минобороны России (@mod_russia) August 24, 2019

As of 5 p.m. ET, the storm’s center was approximately 725 miles east-southeast of Barbados and moving west at 12 miles per hour, the hurricane center said, with maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour... A tropical depression or another tropical storm could form off Florida due to the conditions, AccuWeather reported Saturday... While it’s too early to determine what path the storm might take, residents in the Caribbean’s Lesser Antilles should be mindful to watch the storm’s progress, according to the hurricane center’s Dennis Feltgen.

Whites built America--the greatest nation on this side of Heaven. Whites in the West practice Christianity, they believe in rule of law and justice, and they try to treat ALL people fairly. No other decent and civilized group like them.

— Jesse Lee Peterson (@JLPtalk) August 24, 2019

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with a federal judge in Idaho that the state's denying the surgery for 31-year-old Adree Edmo amounted to cruel and unusual punishment, a violation of the Eighth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Under the ruling, Edmo would become the first Idaho inmate to receive gender confirmation surgery while in Idaho Department of Correction custody... Republican Gov. Brad Little said he planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"There is a new algorithm that's trying to take down robot combat videos," said YouTuber and robot enthusiast Anthony Murney, according to The Independent. "It's a disgrace... [we want] to get YouTube's attention to stop this because it's ridiculous."

"Something weird is happening with YouTube. YouTube has started to take down robot combat videos," according to YouTube channel World of Woodrow.

"Something has gone wrong basically with the YouTube algorithm whereby it thinks for some weird reason that robot combat is somehow showing animal cruelty or something of the like."...

A week after Joichi Ito, the director of the M.I.T. Media Lab, apologized for his ties to the disgraced New York financier Jeffrey Epstein, the president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced that the university would investigate its dealings with Mr. Epstein.

In an email sent Thursday evening to the M.I.T. community that was shared with The New York Times, the president, L. Rafael Reif, said the university had received roughly $800,000 in donations from Epstein funds over a 20-year period. The money went to the Media Lab, an elite research center led by Mr. Ito, as well as to a member of the M.I.T. faculty, the physicist Seth Lloyd. Mr. Ito is also on the board of The New York Times Company.

Jeff Klinzman, an adjunct English professor of nearly 10 years at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, made the remark after a local TV station questioned him over his social media activity... “I affirm that I am Antifa,” Klinzman told local ABC affiliate KCRG-TV, which found the professor’s numerous posts both on his personal page and on an “Iowa Antifa” page. He stood behind his comments -- though added he’s willing to apologize to any Christians offended by them

A Colombian Instagram model moonlighted as an international underage sex trafficking madame who recruited vulnerable girls to service celebrity clients, according to authorities. The high-profile trial for Liliana del Carmen Campos Puello is now underway in Cartagena, where prosecutors say she headquartered the child prostitution ring along with 17 others... Among the horrors the child sex slaves were allegedly forced to endure, were tattoo brandings by their “owners” and sex parties on luxury yachts and hotels.