Health care organizations, such as HPMC, are under attack by cyber-criminals looking for easy money and nation-state actors seeking data. More than half of all midsize hospitals have signs of malware infections, according to data collected by the Health Information Trust Alliance (HITRUST). Much of the activity, however, has gone unreported.

Ransomware has evolved into a serious threat. Starting with early programs that locked Windows systems more than a decade ago, the increasing use of encryption-enabled malware shows how ransomware has become more sophisticated.

A North Korea missile launch meant to celebrate the birthday of the country's founder ended in failure, U.S. defense officials said, an embarrassing setback in what was reportedly the inaugural test of a new, powerful mid-range missile.

"It was a fiery, catastrophic attempt at a launch that was unsuccessful," Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said Friday. U.S. officials are still assessing, but it was likely a road-mobile missile, given that it was launched from a location not usually used for ballistic missile launches, on the country's east coast, he said.

Mr Marsala wrote on a forum for server experts called Server Fault that he was now stuck after having accidentally run destructive code on his own computers. But far from advising them how to fix it, most experts informed him that he had just accidentally deleted the data of his company and its clients, and in so doing had probably destroyed his entire company with just one line of code.

Mr Marsala confirmed that the code had even deleted all of the backups that he had taken in case of catastrophe. Because the drives that were backing up the computers were mounted to it, the computer managed to wipe all of those, too.

The US Department of Justice has said it will pursue its request for Apple to help unlock an iPhone that is part of a drugs case in New York.

In Boston, unsealed court papers show a judge ordered Apple to assist authorities in another criminal case.

The main Panama Papers site run by The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists notes this bounty has provoked the "largest cross-border collaboration ever"; dozens of media sites are involved, although curiously few from the US.

The Guardian states that the the Panama Papers total 2.6 terabytes of data, which dwarfs earlier leaks of financial documents: the HSBC files are 3.3 gigabytes, the Luxembourg tax files 4.4 gigabytes, and the so-called "offshore secrets" files total 260 gigabytes, while Wikileaks is a mere 1.7 gigabytes.

In an evident attempt to stem the flow of embarrassing leaks, companies have been pushing for more laws to protect their "trade secrets."

Ordinary people will look up to the sky and mutter, "Ah, yes. There flies a registered drone."

Or perhaps they'll still look up, fear that the drone is spying and shoot the darned thing down.

The woman allegedly alerted another neighbor, who pulled out his gun and shot the drone down. There had been some issues with teens flying drones in the neighborhood in the past, Opgrande told me.

The Santa Cruz Organisation (SCO) just doesn't know when it's dead: the company that thinks it owns Linux is having another try at milking IBM for money.

SCO has been bankrupt for some time and its only asset is the claims it has against IBM. The company's still capable of paying its lawyers, however, which suggests the backing of someone who feels there's a payday out there one day.

A nursery suggested referring a four-year-old boy to a de-radicalisation programme after he mispronounced the word "cucumber", it is alleged.

Staff in Luton told the child's mother they believed he was saying "cooker bomb" instead of "cucumber".

Teachers and public service workers have a legal obligation to report any concerns of extremist behaviour to the authorities since July.

Since November, 54 people in Wisconsin have one by one fallen ill with an obscure kind of bacteria called Elizabethkingia. Fifteen have died from the infection.

It’s a mystery for the CDC’s disease detectives, a corps of about 70 doctors and epidemiologists who specialize in tracing outbreaks, from foodborne illnesses to Ebola.

At this point, CDC is still investigating water—though other sources like water used on produce, which requires tracing it back to grocery stores or farms.

Nathanson is tracking shifts in TV viewership over time, and he estimates that 2015 saw a 3 percent drop in TV viewing. This is part of an overall trend that saw a precipitous decline in TV viewership in 2014, combined with a corresponding rise in subscriptions to streaming services.

A growing percentage of households only get their media via broadband, so streaming is the most obvious option for TV. Plus, Netflix offerings are designed to be consumed any time you like. No need to buy more devices to get time-shifted shows.