Data breach leaks SSNs of over 230,000 Comcast customers

Data breach leaks SSNs of over 230,000 Comcast customers

A data breach has exposed the names, addresses, social security numbers, and birthdates of more than 237,700 Comcast customers. The breach stems from a security incident at Financial Business and Consumer Solutions (FBCS), a debt collection agency Comcast previously used, according to a filing with the state of Maine on Friday, as reported by BleepingComputer … Read more

American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems

American Water warns of billing outages after finding hackers in its systems

U.S. public utility giant American Water says it has disconnected some of its systems after discovering that hackers breached its internal networks last week.  American Water, which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across the United States, confirmed the security incident in an 8-K regulatory filing with the U.S. … Read more

How and why does your phone get bricked?

How and why does your phone get bricked?

Damien Wilde / Android Authority We do everything on our smartphones now, and given how essential they’ve become, a phone that isn’t working will likely send you into a panic spiral. Unless you’re manually installing custom ROMs and tweaking software, official updates that render your device unusable are, luckily, quite rare. It does happen, though, … Read more

American Water Warns of Billing Outages After Finding Hackers in Its Systems

American Water Warns of Billing Outages After Finding Hackers in Its Systems

U.S. public utility giant American Water says it has disconnected some of its systems after discovering that hackers breached its internal networks last week. From a report: American Water, which supplies drinking water and wastewater services to more than 14 million people across the United States, confirmed the security incident in an 8-K regulatory filing … Read more

New Report Reveals When to Expect the AirTag 2

New Report Reveals When to Expect the AirTag 2

Apple released the AirTag in April 2021, so it is now three and a half years old. While the AirTag has not received any hardware updates since then, a new version of the item tracking accessory is in development, according to a recent report. Below, we recap rumors about a second-generation AirTag. Timing A new … Read more

Alien: Isolation is finally getting a sequel after 10 years

Alien: Isolation is finally getting a sequel after 10 years

Sega Horror video game favorite Alien: Isolation is finally getting a sequel from Creative Assembly and Sega after 10 years, multiple rumors, and one shockingly canceled project. Creative director Alistair Hope, who was also the director on the original game, shared the announcement on X (formerly Twitter), burying it at the bottom of a letter … Read more

The 3 Best Logical Functions I Always Use in Excel

The 3 Best Logical Functions I Always Use in Excel

Excel’s logical functions test whether a statement or data is true or false, before enabling the program to carry out an action based on the result. They are useful for analyzing data, automating certain tasks or calculations, and, ultimately, making decisions. When used indendently, they return TRUE or FALSE, depending on whether the criteria you … Read more

Startup Guru Steve Blank Says AI Changes Everything

Startup Guru Steve Blank Says AI Changes Everything

Steve Blank came of age as an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley in the 1970s, when it was truly about the silicon, and by the 1990s he had founded or worked at four high-tech startups. He eventually drew on this experience to create a model of developing customers inspired by the scientific method; it calls for … Read more