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advertisement advertisement advertisement On Sunday some malicious actors tried to install a back door into the PHP code library, a server-side programming language that powers 79% of sites on the internet, including Facebook and Wikipedia. advertisement advertisement The attack recalled one of the worst government hacks in history , on SolarWinds, the IT management software used by many government agencies and large U.S. companies. The SolarWinds attackers—widely thought to be employed by Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service—planted malware in the SolarWinds system that sends out updates to end users. As in the SolarWinds attack, the PHP hackers targeted the code base of a widely used library so that the changes they made would impact instances of the software run by end users. The hackers attempted to install a back door that would have allowed them to remotely execute changes to the PHP code after it was put into use by … [Read more...] about Hackers put a back door in a code library that powers 79% of websites

advertisement advertisement advertisement The Amazon rain forest has been deforested to a devastating degree. A new series of haunting aerial photographs show just how much. advertisement advertisement Photographer Richard Mosse, who has previously captured the refugee crisis in Europe and the effects of the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , turned his lens to Brazil’s Arc of Fire, an area of rain forest that has been ravaged by agribusiness, mining, and farming. The images are part of a new series called Tristes Tropiques , an exhibition on view at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York April 8 through May 15. The project merges documentary photography and contemporary art through the use of multispectral images and haunting color treatments that show the effect of human activity on the environment unlike you’ve seen before. 3,500 square miles of land . Unlike fires in the Australia or California, … [Read more...] about See the devastation of the Amazon rain forest, captured in vivid detail