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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing 'today's game' while others are playing 'yesterday's'. If you're looking for Saturday's puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, August 23 (game #804).
Good morning! Let's play Connections, the NYT's clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you've finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I've also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc's Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don't read on if you don't want to know the answers.
NYT Connections today (game #805) - today's words(Image credit: New York Times)Today's NYT Connections words are…
- GLASS
- CORAL
- TORN
- CURTAIN
- RENT
- RATTLE
- COLD
- BOTTLE
- KING
- BOOTY
- CARAFE
- SPLIT
- CLOSE
- GARTER
- CLEFT
- DECANTER
What are some clues for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: Receptacles for a drink
- GREEN: Divided
- BLUE: Slithering things
- PURPLE: [Blank] thing you can do with a phone
Need more clues?
We're firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today's NYT Connections puzzles…
NYT Connections today (game #805) - hint #2 - group answersWhat are the answers for today's NYT Connections groups?
- YELLOW: WINE VESSELS
- GREEN: RIPPED
- BLUE: KINDS OF SNAKES
- PURPLE: ____ CALL
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM.
NYT Connections today (game #805) - the answers(Image credit: New York Times)The answers to today's Connections, game #805, are…
- YELLOW: WINE VESSELS BOTTLE, CARAFE, DECANTER, GLASS
- GREEN: RIPPED CLEFT, RENT, SPLIT, TORN
- BLUE: KINDS OF SNAKES CORAL, GARTER, KING, RATTLE
- PURPLE: ____ CALL BOOTY, CLOSE, COLD, CURTAIN
- My rating: Hard
- My score: 3 mistakes
After an easy game yesterday, I was expecting a more cryptic round today – and so it proved. WINE VESSELS was easy enough to get, but the rest of today’s Connections was really difficult.
I was pleased when I managed to finally get KINDS OF SNAKES, but it took me three tries before I finally achieved it. I was pretty sure about the category and had RATTLE, KING and CORAL locked down, but was clueless about the fourth.
I didn’t really know what I was looking for with the last two groups, but thinking that SPLIT, CLEFT and TORN must belong together, I tried CURTAIN first before swapping in RENT for no reason other than a blind guess.
Yesterday's NYT Connections answers (Saturday, August 23, game #804)- YELLOW: U.S. PRESIDENTS ADAMS, FORD, GRANT, WASHINGTON
- GREEN: ACTORS WHOSE LAST NAMES ARE ALSO VERBS CHEVY CHASE, CHRISTOPH WALTZ, GEOFFREY RUSH, TOM CRUISE
- BLUE: KINDS OF POKER DRAW, OMAHA, STRIP, STUD
- PURPLE: PROPER NOUNS AFTER GERUNDS IN '90S MOVIE TITLES AMY, JOHN MALKOVICH, LAS VEGAS, PRIVATE RYAN
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don't technically need to solve the final one, as you'll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What's more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It's a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It's playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
- A software developer sabotaged his employer after being demoted
- Davis Lu created a "kill switch" that would lock out all users
- He was sentenced to four years in jail and additional three years of supervised leave
A disgruntled worker has been sentenced to four years in prison after installing “kill switch” malware on his employer’s network which was set to trigger if he ever lost network access.
According to a Department of Justice (DoJ) press release, a Chinese national named Davis Lu was working for an unnamed software company between November 2007 and October 2019. In 2018, he was demoted and lost system access, after which he “began sabotaging his employer’s systems”. By early August 2019, he introduced malware that crashed systems and prevented other users from logging in.
Court documents also revealed he created “infinite loops” that crashed servers, deleted coworker profile files, and ultimately built a “kill switch” that would lock out all users if his access to Active Directory was revoked. In early September 2019 he was asked to surrender his laptop, after which the kill switch was triggered.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars in damagesInvestigators found plenty of incriminating evidence on that laptop, including that on the day he turned his device in - he deleted encrypted data.
An analysis of his search history showed he was looking for ways to escalate privileges, hide processes, and quickly delete files. Finally, the kill switch code was named IsDLEnabledinAD, short for “Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory”.
A month after the malware ran, Lu was arrested, and later stood trial in front of the jury.
During the trial, it was shown that Lu’s employer suffered “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in losses, as a direct consequence of his actions. Now, Lu will spend four years in prison, with an additional three years of supervised release.
"The FBI works relentlessly every day to ensure that cyber actors who deploy malicious code and harm American businesses face the consequences of their actions,” said Assistant Director Brett Leatherman of the FBI’s Cyber Division.
“I am proud of the FBI cyber team’s work which led to today’s sentencing and hope it sends a strong message to others who may consider engaging in similar unlawful activities. This case also underscores the importance of identifying insider threats early and highlights the need for proactive engagement with your local FBI field office to mitigate risks and prevent further harm.”
Via The Register
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