Security News Bites for April 18, 2025

Work from Home Security Considerations

As your employees use their company issued laptop at home or at Starbucks, consider whether your security suite is still protecting them. For example, in the office they are behind your firewall (hopefully) and that adds a layer of protection that does not exist when they are working from home. This is where zero trust comes into help, along with other tools. If you are using protective DNS, that may or may not help if they are out of the office. If you need assistance, please contact us.

Change Health is Pressuring Docs Into Repaying Loans From Breach

During the Change Healthcare Meltdown the Feds forced Change to loan doctors money since they didn’t pay claims for months. Now they are pressuring those doctors to repay the loans IMMEDIATELY. Unrealistic. For larger practices, I assume they will sue Change for this. Smaller practices may close or file for bankruptcy, unless they are able to convince a judge to issue a TRO. Stay tuned. Credit: Fierce Healthcare

4Chan Internet Cesspool Went Down This Week

4Chan, one of the many cesspools on the Internet, went down on Tuesday night. It appears that it was hacked by a rival and a lot of sensitive data was dumped. As of Friday night, it was still down. For those of you not familiar with it, think of every crazy thing that people might want to discuss online – it is available there. Offensive. Violent. All normal. At least according to some people, the site is gone forever. Not a problem. Credit: The Register

Chris Krebs Targeted by President, Resigns from Sentinel One

As the president continues to use the power of the executive branch to punish people he doesn’t like and also those around them, he revoked the security clearance of Krebs and the company he joined long after the president fired him during his last term. He resigned this week, saying that this was his fight to fight. Credit: The Record

Sweden Says Can’t Tell if Ships Sabotaged Undersea Cables

The Swedish Accident Investigation Authority says that due to restrictions placed on the investigation of the cable breaks, they could not tell for sure if the dropping of the anchor was intentional or accidental. There are multiple incidents of destruction of undersea cables being investigated, any of which might be an accident or intentional. Sort of curious that we had multiple “accidents” in the span of a few months that damaged undersea Internet and power cables in the same area. Credit: The Record

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