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Colombia's state oil company Ecopetrol is confirming a ransomware attempt that exposed data from thirty-three hundred user accounts. The attackers managed to steal files but failed to deploy encryption software, thanks to security controls already in place. No credentials or identities were compromised, and the company says transactional systems stayed clean throughout.
Shifting to something many engineers will recognize — a frontend developer posted to Hacker News this week with a candid admission: he no longer writes code manually, relying almost entirely on AI even for two-minute tasks. He describes feeling, in his words, lazy and dumb compared to his pre-AI self. It's a quietly important question about what tool-dependence costs us over time.
And on a more infrastructural note, Microsoft's Windows Server Update Services is buckling under what the company calls a buildup of publishing metadata — causing severe synchronization slowdowns and timeouts for organizations trying to pull updates. Microsoft says the problem isn't resolved yet, leaving IT teams in a frustrating holding pattern while patches pile up.
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