250,000 Affected by Data Breach at Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital
Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital (NMH) is notifying 250,000 people that their personal and health information was compromised in a data breach. The incident, the hospital says, occurred on January 31, after a threat actor hacked into its internal network and information systems. This week, NMH notified the Maine Attorney General's Office that the hackers likely accessed the information of 257,073 individuals. READ MORE...
Cybercriminals take aim at Hasbro, weeks of recovery ahead
Hasbro, an American toy maker with more than 5,000 employees, confirmed a cyberattack and proactively took certain systems offline. The intrusion was detected on March 28, and the company promptly activated its incident response protocols. The company said the investigation is ongoing with support from third-party cybersecurity professionals as it works to determine the scope of the incident, while business continuity measures remain in place. READ MORE...
DarkSword exploit forces Apple to loosen its patching policy
Apple has extended security updates to a wider range of devices still running iOS 18, aiming to protect users from the DarkSword exploit kit. This is not the first time Apple has backported fixes for older devices based on vulnerability severity. Allowing iOS 18 users to receive patches without upgrading to iOS 26, however, signals a shift in its long-standing security approach following the discovery of the DarkSword and Coruna exploit kits. READ MORE...
Exploited Zero-Day Among 21 Vulnerabilities Patched in Chrome
Google has announced a Chrome 146 update that patches 21 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day that has been exploited in the wild. According to an advisory from Google, the latest browser update fixes 19 high-severity and 2 medium-severity issues. The exploited vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-5281, and it has been described as a use-after-free issue in Dawn, Chrome's graphics layer. "Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-5281 exists in the wild," Google said. READ MORE...
Venom Stealer MaaS Platform Commoditizes ClickFix Attacks
Developing ClickFix-style attacks has just gotten much easier, thanks to a newly distributed malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform that automates every step of the social engineering technique for would-be attackers, researchers have found. A developer operating under the name "VenomStealer" is selling a MaaS platform of the same name on cybercriminal forums and networks, researchers from BlackFog revealed in a report published Tuesday. READ MORE...
Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse
The Internet is filled with people who insist on being right. In the past, at least they could be reasonably sure that they were arguing with other humans. Those days are gone, apparently. Wikipedia just had to ban an AI that was making edits on its own. Apparently, the AI took it personally. The AI, named Tom-Assistant, was writing articles on Wikipedia. Its creator Bryan Jacobs told it to contribute to articles it found interesting, according to 404 Media, which broke the story. READ MORE...
Cisco Patches Critical and High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Cisco on Wednesday announced fixes for two critical and six high-severity vulnerabilities that could be exploited for authentication bypass, remote code execution, privilege escalation, and information disclosure. One of the critical bugs, tracked as CVE-2026-20160, impacts Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (SSM On-Prem) and could allow attackers to abuse an erroneously exposed internal service to execute arbitrary commands. READ MORE...
Artemis II, NASA's boldest mission in generations, launches crew to the Moon
Three Americans and one Canadian launched into orbit from Florida's Space Coast on Wednesday, flying the most powerful rocket ridden by humans on the first leg of a nine-day voyage around the Moon. Perched atop the 322-foot-tall (98-meter) Space Launch System rocket, the four astronauts lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 6:35 pm EDT. Four hydrogen-fueled RS-25 engines and two solid rocket boosters flashed to life to push the nearly 6 million-pound rocket from its moorings. READ MORE...
- ...in 1889, inventor Charles M. Hall is given a patent for his method of extracting aluminum, allowing for large-scale production.
- ...in 1917, President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress for a declaration of war on Germany and the U.S. enters WWI.
- ...in 1941, radio host Barret Eugene Hansen, AKA "Dr. Demento," who introduced generations of listeners to classic novelty and comedy records, is born in Minneapolis, MN.
- ...in 1947, country singer/songwriter Emmylou Harris ("Together Again", "Sweet Dreams") is born in Birmingham, AL.
