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An Android malware called 'Daam' that infects mobile phones and hacks into sensitive data like call records, contacts, history and camera has been found to be spreading, the national cyber security agency has said in its latest advisory.The virus is also capable of "bypassing anti-virus programs and deploying ransomware on the targeted devices", the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team or CERT-In said.The agency is the federal technology arm to combat cyber attacks and guard the cyber space against phishing and hacking…

Virginia-based power company AES Corp. says it is ready to push the button on a solar-panel order of more than $1 billion if a manufacturer will commit to building a factory in the U.S.If that factory gets built, AES can buy its panels and apply for federal subsidies recently made available to clean-energy developers that use equipment made in the U.S. There is one problem: The government hasn’t decided what “made in the U.S.” means, and how strictly to define it. “You can’t sign…

Industrial-gas manufacturer Air Products APD 1.03% and Chemicals Inc. and power company AES Corp. AES 2.73% are planning to build a $4 billion renewable-powered hydrogen factory in North Texas, the latest large investment in green energy since Congress passed significant tax credits for such projects. The factory, which is slated to start operations in 2027 and will be built on the…

I’m not one to make much of curses, but it really does seem like the Blade—Marvel’s feature film starring Mahershala Ali as the daywalker, Eric Brooks—is running into quite a string of bad luck. After director Bassim Tariq quietly exited the production two weeks ago, citing scheduling conflicts, it appeared as if there was no change in the the Marvel Movie Machine Magic. Now, however, the Hollywood Reporter says that the film is pausing pre-production while the studio searches for a new director.According to THR, Marvel…

Marvell on Wednesday introduced its next-generation hardware security module (HSM) designed to speed up cryptography workloads by orders of magnitude when compared to conventional processors. The LiquidSecurity 2 HSM is aimed primarily at cloud datacenters and therefore offers considerably higher performance than its 2015 predecessor. Marvell's LiquidSecurity is a hardware security module (HSM) adapter that sits in a server, encrypts and decrypts all the data hosted on the machine and stores the hardware-secured keys…

Photo: CHRIS DELMAS/AFP (Getty Images)This week, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced the winners of a global competition to create new encryption standards. Somewhat mind-bogglingly, these algorithms have been designed to defend against a cyber threat that doesn’t even exist yet: quantum computers.For the most part, today’s popular encryption standards are very strong and difficult to defeat. Powered by complex mathematical equations that normal computers can’t crack, encryption keeps your…

A group of U.S. renewable-energy developers is making a $6 billion offer to solar manufacturers: Build panels in the U.S. and we will buy them.The group— AES Corp. AES 1.64% , Clearway Energy Group, Cypress Creek Renewables and D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments—is offering to buy as much as 7 gigawatts worth of U.S.-made solar panels a year. That is equivalent to more than a quarter of what the U.S. installed last year. Its goal is to entice manufacturers to expand or set…