The following are just a few of the pictures I took today at a “No Kings” protest held in Nassau County, New York. It was a peaceful protest. There was a larger-than-expected turnout, with minimal and respectful police presence. As I anticipated in my post explaining why I was going, there were a lot of…
Author: Dissent
No Kings. Not Today. Not Ever.
The following is a personal statement. Today is a day of national protest against the authoritarian regime being imposed by a narcissist and those who are afraid to stand up to him. Today is the day when my husband — an arch-Conservative who has never participated in a political protest in his life — is…
Massachusetts hospitals Heywood, Athol say outage was a cybersecurity incident
Joseph Topping reports: Heywood Hospital and Athol Hospital said a network outage this week was caused by a cybersecurity incident. The hospitals said they took affected systems offline and engaged a third-party cybersecurity firm. The facilities—Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Massachusetts, and Athol Hospital in Athol, Massachusetts—remain open and caring for patients; earlier in the week…
Data BreachesProsper Data Breach Impacts 17.6 Million Accounts
Ionut Arghire reports: More than 17 million individuals were likely impacted by a data breach at peer-to-peer lending marketplace Prosper, data breach notification service Have I Been Pwned warns. Prosper disclosed the incident last month, noting that hackers accessed its network and stole confidential, proprietary, and personal information from its systems. According to the US-based…
An arrested man’s lawyer claims his client can’t be ShinyHunters’ leader. His argument wasn’t persuasive.
On October 14, the attorney for the man whom France claims to be the head of ShinyHunters held a press conference that included some statements on his client’s case. So far, neither France nor the attorney, Juan Branco, has disclosed the arrested man’s name, so we are not really sure who his client is. All…
The Alliance That Wasn’t: A Critical Analysis of ReliaQuest’s Q3 2025 Ransomware Report
Here’s a must-read post, especially if you read and repeated claims that DragonForce, Qilin, and LockBit have formed some kind of cartel. Marco A. De Felice writes on SuspectFile: In the recently published “Threat Spotlight: Ransomware and Cyber Extortion in Q3 2025” by ReliaQuest, one particular section drew significant attention: the claim of an alleged “alliance” between three ransomware…