Why ransomware hackers love a holiday weekend

Enlarge / Gah, don’t you miss unstressed travel? (credit: Klaus Vedfelt / Getty Images) meat-processing giant JBS. On the Friday before the Fourth of July, it was IT-management software company Kaseya and, by extension, over a thousand businesses of varying…

How Ida dodged NYC’s flood defenses

“The problem is, we’re seeing these impacts and these changing storms faster, and adaptations are just not keeping pace,” says Lauren McPhillips, a hydrologist at Penn State University who studies urban flooding. New York City has been relatively forward-thinking when…