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Cyber attack that shut down schools in New Mexico claimed by ransomware gang
Ransomware gang Interlock today claimed responsibility for a February 2025 cyber attack on the Aztec Municipal School District in New Mexico. The school district announced a network outage on February 24, 2025 forced schools to cancel classes. It reopened on March 3, 2025, but as of time if writing, the district is still recovering systems and restricting access to the…
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Skype Will Shut Down on May 5, As Microsoft Shifts to Teams
Image: Microsoft Microsoft is officially retiring Skype on May 5, ending the app’s two-decade run as a pioneer in video calling. The move signals Microsoft’s full shift toward Teams, its all-in-one messaging and video platform. “At this point, putting all our focus behind Teams will let us give a simpler message and drive faster innovation,” Microsoft 365 collaborative apps and…
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Skype Might Shut Down Soon
Skype has languished in recent years, with other apps like Discord becoming more popular for group communication, and Teams serving as Microsoft’s own successor. It’s not exactly surprising, then, to see that Microsoft might be about to kill off Skype after a long 21 years. Microsoft seems to be gearing up to sunset Skype. How-To Geek has corroborated, from a…
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Amazon Prime will shut down its clothing try-on program
Given the combination of Try Before You Buy only scaling to a limited number of items and customers increasingly using our new AI-powered features like virtual try-on, personalized size recommendations, review highlights, and improved size charts to make sure they find the right fit, we’re phasing out the Try Before You Buy option, effective January 31, 2025. Of course, customers will continue to enjoy…
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Samsung Frame Pro TV has the upgrade to shut down the haters — even me
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always appreciated Samsung’s The Frame TV from an aesthetic perspective. But as someone who reviews TVs for a living, I had a hard time seeing past the lackluster picture performance when it comes to movie- and TV-watching. In fact, I’ve presented that caveat to many prospective shoppers over the years. This might not be the…
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Ransomware gang says it hacked Goodwill, shut down stores in Texas
Ransomware group Rhysida yesterday claimed responsibility for a November 2024 cyber attack on Goodwill North Central Texas. Goodwill North Central Texas announced a “company-wide technical issue” on November 10, 2024 that shut down all of its stores. They started reopening on November 13 and all stores were back up and running by November 22. Rhysida says it stole confidential data…
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Ransomware gang claims cyberattack that shut down a Pennsylvania school district
Ransomware gang RansomHub today claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on Interboro Schools last month. The Pennsylvania school district confirmed it was the victim of a ransomware attack on October 28, 2024, and cancelled classes the following day due to network issues. In a post on its leak site, RansomHub says it stole 1.1 TB of data from the school…
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Ransomware gang claims cyber attack that shut down Nebraska schools
Ransomware gang Interlock today claimed responsibility for a cyber attack that shut down Winnebago Public Schools in Nebraska. On October 21, 2024, Winnebago Public Schools announced it suffered a cyber attack. The school district’s website stated, “There has been a cyber-attack on the system at Winnebago Public Schools. We are currently working through the breach, and trying to get our…
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Canada orders TikTok to shut down over national risk concerns
The Canadian government has ordered the dissolution of TikTok Technology Canada following a multi-step review that provided information and evidence of the social media company posing a national risk. The decision also considered advice of Canada’s security and intelligence community as well as other government partners. It does not ban Canadian users’ access to the TikTok platform or block their ability…
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Set WiFi to Automatically Shut Off With Parental Controls
Parents seeking an easier solution to curb their children’s nighttime device usage have several viable options. If it’s too troublesome to simply take their devices away each night or to manage parental controls directly, you can try restricting their access to the internet from your WiFi routers, which we’ll explain how to do below. “Most of the routers we test…
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