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Illustration by Lon Tweeten for TIME; Getty ImagesBy Simon ShusterMarch 21, 2021 8:17 PM EDTThe Biden Administration issued an open threat on March 8 to several Russian media outlets. Over the last few months, the U.S. had been monitoring their campaign of disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, and it now intended to push back with every tool we have, the White House said. But that statement did little to deter its most prominent target: an obscure operation called News Front, which has styled itself as a group of fighters in the information war.The site editor, Konstantin Knyrik, says the warnings from the White House had little effect, other than to draw some fresh attention to his platform. Wersquo;re growing. Wersquo;re posting. Wersquo;re reaching new audiences, Knyrik says in a phone interview from Moscow. Wersquo;re not backin stanley cup g down.In the days since the threat, News Front has continued to pump out the same set of narratives: wildly exaggerating the dangers of vaccines made in the West, and offering paeans to the safety and efficacy of Russiarsquo alternative, Sputnik V. Real Danger of Western Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines, News Front stanley cup blared in a typical headline on March 12. The article refers to the horrific consequences of taking these vaccines. It neglects to mention that both vaccines have been authorized by the Food and Dru stanley cup g Administration after scienti Eagq Hillary Clinton Touts Economic Vision in New TV Ad
A worker demonstrates Apple Pay inside a mobile kiosk sponsored by Visa and Wells Fargo to demonstrate the new Apple Pay mobile payment system on October 20, 2014 in San Francisco City.Justin Sullivanmdash;Getty ImagesBy Jack LinshiOctober 29, 2014 5:07 PM EDTApple Pay competitor CurrentC defended the security of its mobile payment system in a Wednesday conference call, just hours after its parent company MCX reported that hackers had obtained some users ; e-mail addresses.MCX CEO Dekkers Davidson said the attack, which targeted the company email vendor, was not a breach of the CurrentC app itself. He also emphasized that the incident affected mostly dummy e-mails used in the yet-unreleased service ongoing testing phase. Davidson also revealed that some dummy zip codes were stolen a adidas originals nd that CurrentC systems had withstood several repeated attacks during the past week.Davidson added the hack hasn ;t made the company hesitant to store customer information in the cloud, a plan that been criticized given that CurrentC main competitor, Apple Pay, do nike dunk esn ;t collect any traceable information at all.In terms of consumers ; information and any payment credentials, theyrsquo;re n adidas samba og ot stored on a device. Theyrsquo;re not actually present in the physical world, Davidson said. And that we think is a design or implementation that makes it far more secure than the world we live in today, and far mor
Illustration by Lon Tweeten for TIME; Getty ImagesBy Simon ShusterMarch 21, 2021 8:17 PM EDTThe Biden Administration issued an open threat on March 8 to several Russian media outlets. Over the last few months, the U.S. had been monitoring their campaign of disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, and it now intended to push back with every tool we have, the White House said. But that statement did little to deter its most prominent target: an obscure operation called News Front, which has styled itself as a group of fighters in the information war.The site editor, Konstantin Knyrik, says the warnings from the White House had little effect, other than to draw some fresh attention to his platform. Wersquo;re growing. Wersquo;re posting. Wersquo;re reaching new audiences, Knyrik says in a phone interview from Moscow. Wersquo;re not backin stanley cup g down.In the days since the threat, News Front has continued to pump out the same set of narratives: wildly exaggerating the dangers of vaccines made in the West, and offering paeans to the safety and efficacy of Russiarsquo alternative, Sputnik V. Real Danger of Western Pfizer and Moderna Vaccines, News Front stanley cup blared in a typical headline on March 12. The article refers to the horrific consequences of taking these vaccines. It neglects to mention that both vaccines have been authorized by the Food and Dru stanley cup g Administration after scienti Eagq Hillary Clinton Touts Economic Vision in New TV Ad
A worker demonstrates Apple Pay inside a mobile kiosk sponsored by Visa and Wells Fargo to demonstrate the new Apple Pay mobile payment system on October 20, 2014 in San Francisco City.Justin Sullivanmdash;Getty ImagesBy Jack LinshiOctober 29, 2014 5:07 PM EDTApple Pay competitor CurrentC defended the security of its mobile payment system in a Wednesday conference call, just hours after its parent company MCX reported that hackers had obtained some users ; e-mail addresses.MCX CEO Dekkers Davidson said the attack, which targeted the company email vendor, was not a breach of the CurrentC app itself. He also emphasized that the incident affected mostly dummy e-mails used in the yet-unreleased service ongoing testing phase. Davidson also revealed that some dummy zip codes were stolen a adidas originals nd that CurrentC systems had withstood several repeated attacks during the past week.Davidson added the hack hasn ;t made the company hesitant to store customer information in the cloud, a plan that been criticized given that CurrentC main competitor, Apple Pay, do nike dunk esn ;t collect any traceable information at all.In terms of consumers ; information and any payment credentials, theyrsquo;re n adidas samba og ot stored on a device. Theyrsquo;re not actually present in the physical world, Davidson said. And that we think is a design or implementation that makes it far more secure than the world we live in today, and far mor