Author: Max Smith
Mazzulla responded passionately to the intense scrutiny both Tatum and Brown are facing. This originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston.The Boston Celtics defeated the Indiana Pacers in the Eastern Conference Finals on May 25 and will have 10 days of rest before Game 1 of the 2024 NBA Finals.With so many minutes between actual games, it was inevitable that media commentators would bring up silly arguments and debates about the Celtics' star duo, Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. The craziest was probably ESPN's get up! Earlier this week on the show, Tatum spoke about whether he was happy for Brown…
MasterCard Japan Co., Ltd. (Massachusetts – The European Cyber Resilience Centre (ECRC) was recently established to promote public-private cooperation and fight cybercrime. The move aims to improve resilience and combat cyber threats in Europe and Belgium.The new center will strengthen defense systems against cyber threats, improve response times and serve as a center of cybersecurity leadership. In today's interconnected world, cybercrime has become a major challenge for organizations in all sectors.With digitalisation and increased connectivity, fraudsters are adopting more sophisticated methods, creating a global cybercrime economy worth around trillions of euros. Through the new centre, the MA therefore aims to…
A gameplay screenshot from Beaver Stadium from the College Football 25 video game, due for release this July. Gameplay footage released this week promises that Beaver Stadium's intimidating atmosphere and crowd noise will be some of the best in the upcoming College Football 25 video game, due for release in July. According to a video released on Friday morning, Beaver Stadium is shown to have the No. 2 overall Stadium Pulse, a game feature in which crowd noise affects the visiting team's performance. The gameplay did not show which stadium boasts the No. 1 overall spot, but did show Georgia…
According to a Honeywell report, malicious actors understand industrial and critical infrastructure systems and are using that knowledge to compromise those systems. 82% of the malware detected was found to have the potential to severely impact operations. And more often than not, malicious actors deploy “Living Off the Land” tactics to disrupt those systems.As noted in the Honeywell 2024 USB Threat Report, malware frequently targets document vulnerabilities and uses scripting and command-line techniques. These LotL, or “silent residency” attacks define the ability of malware or attackers to remain persistent within a system for extended periods of time without detection. In…
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New research suggests that people often start falling behind on mortgages, credit card payments and other financial obligations long before they develop dementia.A team of economists and health experts from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Georgetown University combined Medicare records with data from credit reporting company Equifax to study how people's borrowing behavior changed in the years before and after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's or similar diseases.Their findings were shocking: the credit scores of people who later developed dementia began to plummet long before the disease was officially diagnosed. A year before diagnosis, these people were 17.2%…
A new Microsoft Windows feature planned for Copilot+ PCs called “Recall” has been called a security and privacy nightmare by cybersecurity researchers and privacy advocates. Copilot Recall, enabled by default, frequently captures screenshots, or “snapshots,” of a user's activity and stores them in a local database specific to the user's account. The potential for personal and sensitive data to be exposed by this new feature has alarmed security and privacy advocates and even sparked a UK investigation into the issue. Co-pilot recall disputes privacy and security claims In a lengthy Mastodon thread about the new feature, Windows security researcher Kevin…
Locations and settings are important to video games: they determine the atmosphere and guide choices like language and music. Some of the biggest and most popular games are set in a dystopian future or feudal Japan, but not many are set in a Russian monastery in the late 18th century.Indicawas developed by Odd Meter and published by 11 Bit Studios, and released on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on May 2. It is primarily narrative-driven, meaning players follow a storyline rather than deciding for themselves what to do.The protagonist is the titular Indica, a young nun who has monologues…
As the Pac-12 Conference era comes to an end after more than a century, we count down the top 50 moments in University of California sports.moment: No one knew it at the time, but it all ended the moment UC junior right-handed pitcher Jocelyn Forrest took the mound in the top of the first inning in Game 2 of the 2002 Women's College World Series. Forrest tossed three consecutive shutout wins as the Bears defeated Florida State 1-0, Arizona State 3-0 and Arizona 6-0 to claim their first WCWS title and UC's first NCAA women's team title in any sport.story:…
Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) published an update to its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) webpage regarding the Change Healthcare cybersecurity incident. The webpage, first published on April 19, 2024, provides answers to frequently asked questions about the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) regulations and the cybersecurity incident that affected Change Healthcare, a division of UnitedHealth Group (UHG), and many other healthcare organizations.OCR enforces the HIPAA Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification Rule, which sets forth the requirements that HIPAA-covered entities (health plans, health clearinghouses, and most health…