A large and popular open-source mapping database used by many companies, apps, and websites is currently dealing with a strange problem: Random, fake beaches are appearing in places like backyards, church parking lots, and golf courses. And the community knows who to blame: Pokémon Go players trying to catch a rare new creature. The Week [...]read moreFake Beaches Popping Up Online Blamed On Pokémon Go Players
Five aid workers from Chef José Andrés‘ World Central Kitchen were killed in Gaza during an alleged Israeli airstrike Monday … this according to multiple reports. The celebrity chef’s humanitarian staffers — who worked for his nonprofit, World Central Kitchen, which is stationed in Gaza rendering food and aid to Palestinians — died after their [...]read moreChef José Andrés’ World Central Kitchen Members Killed in Gaza, IDF Blamed
The ISIS affiliate that American officials say was behind the deadly attack in Moscow is one of the last significant antagonists that the Taliban government faces in Afghanistan, and it has carried out repeated attacks there, including on the Russian Embassy, in recent years. That branch of ISIS — known as the Islamic State Khorasan [...]read moreISIS-K, Blamed in Moscow Attack, Has Hit at Taliban’s Russia Links
An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware, TechCrunch has learned. A healthcare executive with knowledge of the incident, who was on the call briefed by the company’s executives, said the healthcare tech [...]read moreRansomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions