How the ransomware attack at Change Healthcare went down: A timeline
The hack at Change Healthcare stands as the biggest data breaches of U.S. medical data in history.
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Super Nintendo Hardware Is Running Faster as It Ages
Something very strange is happening inside Super Nintendo (SNES) consoles as they age: a component you’ve probably never heard of is running ever so slightly faster as we get further and further away from the time the consoles first hit the market in the early ‘90s. The discovery started a mild panic in the speedrunning…
Ziff Davis, Owner of Sites Including IGN and CNET, Quietly Removed DEI Language From Its Website
Ziff Davis, the $2 billion media conglomerate that owns dozens of sites including PCMag, Lifehacker, IGN and CNET, is quietly taking diversity, equity, and inclusion information off of its website, 404 Media has learned. In the past month, the company removed information about diversity-focused employee resource groups, inclusion-based hiring goals, and diversity training for its…
WantToCry ransomware remotely encrypts files
Brute-force attempts against SMB services can be early signs of an attack Categories: Threat Research Tags: Ransomware, WantToCry, SMB
Libraries Can’t Get Their Loaned Books Back Because of Trump’s Tariffs
The Trump administration’s tariff regime and the elimination of fee exemptions for items under $800 is limiting resource sharing between university libraries, trapping some books in foreign countries, and reversing long-held standards in academic cooperation. “There are libraries that have our books that we’ve lent to them before all of this happened, and now they…
Sophos excels in the 2024 MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluations: Enterprise
Results from the latest ATT&CK Evaluations for endpoint detection and response solutions.
Wikipedia Prepares for ‘Increase in Threats’ to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Wikimedia Foundation is building new tools that it hopes will help Wikipedia editors stay anonymous in part to avoid harassment and legal threats as Elon Musk and the Heritage Foundation ramp up their attacks on people who edit Wikipedia. Some of the tactics have been pioneered by Wikimedia in countries with authoritarian governments and…
Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
Donald Trump fired National Archives director Colleen Shogan Friday night, she said in a LinkedIn post and confirmed to 404 Media. “It was an honor and privilege to serve as the 11th Archivist of the United States,” Shogan told 404 Media. “I did so with integrity every day.” Earlier on LinkedIn, Shogan wrote: “This evening,…
Govt issues warning on VPN use, AI chatbots
The advisory was issued by NTISB on VPN use and AI chatbots
Flock Decides Not to Use Hacked Data in People Search Tool
The surveillance company Flock told employees at an all-hands meeting Friday that its new people search product, Nova, will not include hacked data from the dark web. The announcement comes a little over a week after 404 Media broke the news about internal tension at the company about plans to use breached data, including from…