A tailored spear-phishing attack successfully convinced a Reddit employee to hand over their credentials and their one-time password, but soon after, the same worker notified security.

The hackers behind a nascent strain of ransomware hit a snag this week when a security researcher found a flaw in the payment system and, he says, helped victims save $27,000 in potential losses. Stanford University student and security researcher Jack Cable got a call Wednesday from a family friend, who is a doctor, asking for help because cybercriminals had locked the doctor’s computer. The doctor was preparing to pay the ransom when Cable began looking at the hackers’ payment system, according to Cable. The hackers were demanding 0.01 Bitcoin, or roughly $550 at the time, to unlock the doctor’s files. Cable, who served as a cybersecurity adviser to the Department of Homeland Security during the 2020 election, realized that if he changed one letter from lowercase to uppercase in the “transaction ID” the hackers were using to track payments, the system mistook the input for a victim that had […]

“Every floppy matters”: Archivists needed every single byte to build working ROM.

MuleSoft deals with a sensitive security issue and sets up an example for the whole industry to follow.

TLAM helping preserve language.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It was Spirit Week at the Digital Pioneers Academy, and in fitting with the day’s “sports” theme, Mashea Ashton, the school’s ...

Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities program is letting small cities share and collaborate on evidenced-based solutions to urban problems.

The government of Mecklenburg County, N.C., said it would not pay a ransom to hackers who took control of several of its computer systems.

List of How To Do It Right.

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A few basic changes helped them improve the gender balance.

After a dramatic 24 hours, the Senate on July 13 confirmed Carla Hayden as the nation’s 14th Librarian of Congress. Hayden is the first woman, and the first African-American to serve as Librarian of Congress, and is the first professional librarian to hold the office in over 60 years.

Major methodological discovery, only made possible by open data.

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A huge project unexpectedly led to a way of finding disease genes without needing to know about diseases.

The University of Iowa is home to almost a century of fandom history. Its library’s special collections house everything from 1920s "dime novel" reviews to T-shirts that were auctioned off in...