Author: Robert Timlick

With a $25.5 million lien “paid in full,” the home of Portland’s Ritz-Carlton is finished after a 2019 construction start.

The project to replace the I-5 bridge connecting Oregon and Washington has received another federal funding round of $1.5 billion.

This summer, the National Center for Health Statistics released some stunning data: More than 93,000 people died from overdoses in 2020. That’s the most ever recorded. Unfortunately, it’s the latest troubling chapter in the nation’s sprawling opioid epidemic. Two significant factors seem to be at work: (1) the spread of illegal fentanyl and (2) the COVID-19 pandemic.

In Oregon, which has one of the highest rates of opioid abuse in the country, the parallels between the twin crises are hard…

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a short-lived DarkGate malware campaign that leveraged Samba file shares to initiate the infections.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said the activity spanned the months of March and April 2024, with the infection chains using servers running public-facing Samba file shares hosting Visual Basic Script (VBS) and JavaScript files. Targets included North

Two Russian-born Australian citizens have been arrested and charged in the country for spying on behalf of Russia as part of a “complex” law enforcement operation codenamed BURGAZADA.
This includes a 40-year-old woman, an Australian Defence Force (ADF) Army Private, and her husband, a 62-year-old self-employed laborer. Media reports have identified them as Kira Korolev and Igor Korolev,

In today’s digital age, passwords serve as the keys to our most sensitive information, from social media accounts to banking and business systems. This immense power brings with it significant responsibility—and vulnerability.
Most people don’t realize their credentials have been compromised until the damage is done.
Imagine waking up to drained bank accounts, stolen identities, or a company’s

A critical security issue has been disclosed in the Exim mail transfer agent that could enable threat actors to deliver malicious attachments to target users’ inboxes.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-39929, has a CVSS score of 9.1 out of 10.0. It has been addressed in version 4.98.

“Exim through 4.97.1 misparses a multiline RFC 2231 header filename, and thus remote attackers can bypass

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) said it seized two internet domains and searched nearly 1,000 social media accounts that Russian threat actors allegedly used to covertly spread pro-Kremlin disinformation in the country and abroad on a large scale.
“The social media bot farm used elements of AI to create fictitious social media profiles — often purporting to belong to individuals in the

Odell Beckham Jr.’s lawyers attempted to paint a picture of retaliatory actions Nike took towards to persuade the NFL star to renew his contract.

Programs that reward energy demand reductions pay off, Portland General Electric says.