Google said in a new blog post that hackers linked to the Chinese government have been impersonating antivirus software McAfee to try to infect victims’ machines with malware. And, Google says, the hackers appear to be the same group that unsuccessfully targeted the presidential campaign of former Vice President Joe Biden with a phishing attack earlier this year. A similar group of hackers based in Iran had tried to target President Trump’s campaign, but also was unsuccessful. The… Source link

There are a lot of questions about the search for the next Houston Rockets head coach, but we also know a few things. We know now that Rafael Stone is running the search now that Daryl Morey has stepped away from the franchise. We also know that the three finalists for the Houston head coach job are Jeff Van Gundy, John Lucas, Stephen Silas, as reported by Mark Berman of Fox News 26 in Houston. Van Gundy is a former Rockets (and Knicks) coach turned broadcaster who has been eager to get back… Source link

A Kentucky postal worker who allegedly threw out more than 100 absentee ballots in a dumpster on Thursday has been fired by the U.S. Postal Service and may face federal prosecution. The Postal Service Office of Inspector General discovered 112 discarded absentee ballots intended for voters in ZIP code 40299, which is located in the Louisville metro area, as well as two political fliers that had also been discarded. The unidentified individual responsible for throwing out the ballots in a… Source link

President Trump lashed out at Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., on Saturday, calling him “stupid and obnoxious” after he lambasted the president for his coronavirus response and accused him of being friendly with dictators and white supremacists. “The least effective of our 53 Republican Senators, and a person who truly doesn’t have what it takes to be great, is Little Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a State which I have gladly done so much to help,” Trump tweeted on Saturday morning. Trump’s… Source link

NEW YORK (AP) — Andrew Orkin was taking a break from his evening jog to sit by Prospect Park Lake when he turned around and was startled to see a tangle of wriggling snakes. “And quite a big pile — fully alive,” said Orkin, a music composer who lives near the Brooklyn park. They turned out to be eels that had escaped from one of two large plastic bags that split open as a man dragged them to the shoreline. After dumping the eels in the lake, the man walked away, explaining to… Source link

Facebook (FB) recently announced that it would be banning advertisements that discourage vaccines and banning content related to rabid QAnon conspiracy theories. But according to Imran Ahmed, the CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, it’s too little too late — especially considering that the platform won’t touch existing anti-vaccine posts. “Facebook, they are the 800-pound gorilla in the misinformation market,” Ahmed said on Yahoo Finance’s The First Trade (video above)…. Source link

In , Mashable explores online life through 2007 — back before social media and the smartphone changed everything. When’s the last time you used Yahoo for…anything at all? Your answer might just depend on a simple question: Do you play fantasy football? That’s because even as Yahoo has faded toward internet obscurity, it remains an absolute powerhouse in fantasy sports.  Years ago, in the early-to-mid 2000s, fantasy football boomed in participation for a single reason: the internet…. Source link

There are 8 million confirmed U.S. cases of coronavirus, and yet the pandemic is politicized. President Trump largely eschews mask wearing and falsely claimed during a town hall this week that “85% of the people wearing masks catch” Covid-19 despite becoming infected himself. At the same time, Republican-leaning areas of the U.S. are now experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases. “To the extent that public health measures have become politicized, it really should be no surprise that we… Source link

Ask Google to name that tune. Angela Lang/CNET It happens all the time — you get a song stuck in your head, try to hum it… Source link

For more business and finance explainers, check out our Yahoo U page. When it comes to company performance, earnings are always about meeting expectations. After a company releases its quarterly results, analysts often use “beat” or “miss” to describe the over-performance or under-performance relative to “the street’s estimates.” What do analysts estimate? The broadest performance metrics across companies are revenue and earnings per share. A typical income statement will list net… Source link