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Jessi Combs: Jessi Combs Dies in While Attempting to Break Her Land-Speed Record



Jessi Combs racer and television personality died Tuesday afternoon in Oregon while pursuing a land speed record. Jessi Combs, a professional racer and TV host, was killed Tuesday in a car accident in Oregon while attempting to break her own land-speed record. She was 36 years old. She was known as "the fastest woman on four wheels". She co-hosted the Spike TV show Xtreme 4x4 for more than 90 episodes from 2005 to 2009.

 Born: July 27, 1983

 Died: August 27, 2019

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 Jay Leno, 'Mythbusters' star Jessi Combs among those devastated by a fatal jet-car crash

 Former “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno, a well-known auto aficionado, called her "the fastest woman on four wheels."
The popular race car driver and TV personality were attempting to break her own land-speed record when she was involved in a fatal crash. She began her career in television in 2004 as the host of Xtreme 4×4. She later appeared in 12 episodes of MythBusters seventh season, filling in for Kari Byron while she was on maternity leave. Her on-screen career also included hosting gigs on shows like Velocity’s All Girls Garage and Discovery Channels Overhaulin and Break Room.

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Pornhub hacked: Millions exposed to ad fraud malware masquerading as browser updates



The ad fraud malware takes control of systems, raises money by generating clicks on fake advertisements, and sends device data to C&C servers.
Millions of people who visited Pornhub in the United States, the UK, Canada, and Australia in the past year were exposed to an ad fraud malware which hackers had injected to the site by placing fake browser update adverts.

 Users of Google Chrome, Firefox and Microsoft Edge browsers were equally exposed to the ad fraud malware which has been in use as a sophisticated click-generating software for years.

 According to security firm Proofpoint which uncovered the operation, a hacker group known as KovCoreG hacked into Pornhub advertising and posted fake browser updates to induce visitors to click on them. While Chrome and Firefox users were asked to click on such links to update their browsers with the latest fixes, Microsoft Edge users were offered an update to the Adobe Flash Player.

 Once a visitor clicks on such a link, he/she is asked to open a download file which contains zipped files known either as runme.js, firefox-patch.js or FlashPlayer.hta, depending upon the browser being used.

 Once these files are downloaded and run by visitors, they download payloads that contain Powershell scripts that embed shellcodes. These shellcodes launch 'avi' files which are, in fact, Kovter ad fraud malware when then take control of devices and generate clicks for fraudulent advertisements.

 'This attack chain exposed millions of potential victims in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia, leveraging slight variations on a fake browser update scheme that worked on all three major Windows web browsers,' said researchers at Proofpoint.

 'The attack has been active for more than a year and is ongoing elsewhere, but this particular infection pathway was shut down when the site operator and ad network were notified of the activity,' they added.

 According to the researchers, the operation is a classic example of how hackers are using social engineering and the human factor to inject malware into devices. Malware are cleverly disguised as genuine browser updates or other software and this helps hackers fool gullible visitors.

 'While the payload in this case is ad fraud malware, it could just as easily have been ransomware, an information stealer, or any other malware. Regardless, threat actors are following the money and looking to more effective combinations of social engineering, targeting, and pre-filtering to infect new victims at scale,' they added.
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CS:Go Players Arrested for Throwing Matches and Illegal Betting


CS:Go Players Arrested for Throwing Matches and Illegal Betting

 Six Counter-Strike: Global Offensive were arrested in Australia, following an investigation that revealed betting violations.

 Ever since gaming managed to garner the status of a sport, people have been trying to figure out a way to make more money out of it. And if you involve the ability to bet on matches, things become a lot muddier.

 What’s interesting is that the problem of bet fixing as been around for a long time, from times immemorial. The fact that it can now apply to modern-day gaming seems like a fascinating aspect that would have been impossible to anticipate back a couple of decades ago.

 More money than we can imagine
The Internation Doto 2 Championships just ended in Shanghai, China, had prizes worth over $34 million, and first place got $15,6 million. It’s easy to see why some people might be tempted to do bad things. A lot of money can be earned from esports tournaments.

 In Australia, six Counter-Strike: Global Offensive players were arrested during an investigation, according to report on Kotaku, but released shortly afterward. Of course, they talked among themselves to throws matches and places bets on those matches. A rookie mistake in any sport, let alone one that’s so closely monitored.
The red flag was raised by a betting company that noticed the odd behavior, and it looks that multiple betting companies are involved.

 “Esports is really an emerging sporting industry and with that will come the demand for betting availability on the outcomes of tournaments and matches. These warrants also highlight that police will take any reports of suspicious or criminal activity within esports seriously, and we encourage anyone with information to come forward,” explained Assistant Commissioner Neil Paterson.

 To make matters worse, the punishment for this type of crimes carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. It doesn't matter if they were playing games; illegal betting makes everyone equal.
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Apple Stock Goes Down After President Trump Calls for Tech Giants to Come Home


The United States vs. China trade war is far from coming to an end, and a series of tweets published by President Donald Trump on Friday caused the shares of several American tech giants to decline massively.

 Trump required US tech companies to start looking for what he describes as “an alternative to China,” as he wants a bigger part of their manufacturing to happen in local production facilities.

 In his tweets, Donald Trump accuses China of stealing intellectual property and explains that American companies can avoid this in the future by moving operations to the United States.
“The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.”

 Apple stock going down

 The tweets caused the shares of several American tech companies to decline substantially on Friday. As per CNBC, Apple shares fell 4.6%, while Qualcomm and Nvidia declined 4.7% and 5.2%, respectively.

 Donald Trump claims he can “order” US companies to move the production to the United States under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), but US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says this option won’t be “exercised presently.”

 “He would have the authority to do that under IEEPA if he declared an emergency; he has not done that. I think what he was saying is he's ordering companies to start looking because he wants to make sure, to the extent that we are in an extended trade war, that companies don't have these issues and move out of China,” he was quoted as saying by Telegraph.

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