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This morning.

Via Reuters:

Brazil’s health ministry said its website was hit on Friday by a hacker attack that took several systems down, including one with information about the national immunization program and another used to issue digital vaccination certificates.

The alleged hackers, calling themselves Lapsus$ Group” posted a message on the website saying that internal data had been copied and deleted. “Contact us if you want the data back,” it said, in an apparent ransomware attack.

The message, which included e-mail and Telegram contact info, had been removed by Friday afternoon, but the web page was still down, while user data in the ConectSUS app that provides Brazilians with vaccination certificates had disappeared.

The government put off for a week implementing new health requirements for travelers arriving in Brazil due to the attack.

Brazil health ministry website hit by hackers, vaccination data targeted (Reuters)

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All three installments of The American Chemical Society’s webseries Reactions, to wit:

Chemistry Life Hacks is back with new tips that can change your life, or at least the temperature of your beer. In this episode, you’ll learn how to cool your brews quickly before the big game starts, get fruit flies out of your kitchen for good, how to cook the perfect patty on the grill and get a remedy for the dreaded “stinky sponge syndrome.”

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The first rule of food hacking: stop being so narrow-minded and heteronormative by confining your cooking to a kitchen. At work, start your hacking as soon as you enter the building’s lobby. An elevator can easily become an ascending workspace to create an E-Z morning snack. With the help of a piping hot cuppa joe, a stupid, boring raw egg becomes a hard-boiled delicacy.

This changes everything.

MORE: Food Hacking At The Office (Vice)

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Hackers from the Chaos Computer Club in Germany have demonstrated that you can steal the fingerprint from any drinking glass and access anyone’s iPhone 5S without any difficulty. A fingerprint of the phone user, photographed from a glass surface, was enough to create a fake finger that could unlock an iPhone 5s secured with TouchID. Just with a camera, a laser printer, and some wood glue.

iPhone 5S’ fingerprint security can be easily broken, hackers show (Jesus Diaz, Gizmodo)

Run by a collective of hackers, Glitchr is designed to push the limits of what can be confined to the Facebook format. It ain’t pretty.

The results range from duplicated chat feeds to layout-breaking collections of pronunciation marks.It’s fun, it’s sort of funny and it might be the perfect thing to ‘like’ on someone else’s Facebook wall to make them think someone broke the interwebs.

Like.

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