Ransomware gangs have evolved from noisy mass campaigns into precise, surgical operators. A growing and dangerous trend is the abuse of legitimate Windows utilities — tools built to help administrators troubleshoot and repair systems — as the first step in modern ransomware operations. By repurposing utilities such as Process Hacker, IOBit Unlocker, PowerRun, AuKill and TDSSKiller, attackers can silently neutralize
Author: Saugata Datta
I’m an IT/DevOps professional with many years of hands-on experience across Windows, Linux, Automation, Backup and Cloud. I love building real-world automations to make infrastructure reliable, secure, and self-healing. Through this blog, I share practical learnings from enterprise projects and my home-lab experiments on Cloudflare, Self-Hosting and everything in between. Always tinkering, always improving.
Google Lets You Change Your @gmail.com Address — Here’s How to Do It Safely
For more than twenty years, the email address you chose when creating a Google Account was effectively permanent. That meant awkward childhood handles, name changes after marriage, or simply wanting a cleaner, more professional address often required creating a brand-new Google Account and manually migrating data. Google has quietly changed that rule: users with @gmail.com addresses can now replace their
Inside the Claude Code Leak: What Anthropic’s Accidental Release Reveals
Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude family of agents, suffered an unexpected exposure that rippled across the developer community and the wider AI market. Earlier today, a sizable JavaScript source map file—bundled with a public npm release—made internal implementation details of Claude Code visible to anyone who downloaded it. What began as a packaging mistake quickly became a public
Notepad++ v8.9.3 Released — cURL Fixes, Crash Repairs, and Enterprise Controls
Notepad++ has shipped version 8.9.3, a maintenance-focused release that closes a notable security gap in its updater, resolves several long-standing stability regressions, and finishes a multi-release migration to a faster XML parser. For administrators and power users who depend on the editor for daily development work, this update is worth prompt attention: it contains both a security remediation and a
Prevent Accidental Exposure of Non-Production Power Pages Sites — New Admin Governance Controls (Microsoft Power Platform)
When teams build or test Power Pages sites in trial or developer environments, there’s a risk those unfinished or sensitive sites could be made public by mistake. Microsoft has added a simple governance control in the Power Platform admin center (PPAC) that helps tenant admins prevent non-production sites from being switched to public—giving organizations an easy guardrail while leaving production
Health AI Boom: More Tools Than Ever — Do They Deliver?
AI-powered chatbots and assistants for health are proliferating. In recent months major technology companies have launched or expanded consumer-facing tools that let people ask medical questions, connect health records, or receive triage-style guidance. These products promise greater access to health information, but independent researchers and clinicians warn that rigorous, third‑party evaluation of their safety and effectiveness remains limited. The landscape