OPSWAT has officially opened the doors to its new Arlington, Virginia, office and CIP cybersecurity lab. The grand opening featured a ribbon-cutting ceremony led by Virginia State Senator Barbara Favola (District 40), with further remarks by Arlington County Board Chair Takis Karontonis and Kate Bates, President and CEO of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce. In...Read More
MULTAN: The intelligence agencies and the National Cybercrime Investigation Agency (NCCIA), Multan, have arrested 14 operatives of a 21-member gang involved in online fraud with people living abroad. According to officials, the gang was involved in defrauding people overseas and extorting money from them. They said a global cybercrime network operating from Pakistan had been...Read More
Attorney General James Uthmeier is issuing a subpoena to Roblox, the massive online platform where users play and create games and socialize. The order demands information about the San Mateo, California-based company’s marketing practices toward children, age-verification methods and chat room moderation policies. Uthmeier’s action comes amid growing concerns about the potential exposure of young...Read More
Ahmedabad: Over the past fortnight, cybercrime units across Gujarat’s major cities have quietly dismantled several sophisticated cybercrime fraud networks. Teams from Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot, and Vadodara, working alongside the state cyber crime cell, successfully solved 12 cybercrime cases, including the capture of associates linked to alleged transnational cybercrime syndicate. A release stated that the minister...Read More
As we welcome our students back into classrooms, I’m filled with optimism for students’ growth and learning. At the same time, we face a painful reality that students can’t thrive at school unless their basic need for safety is met. In my role as a school board member at Aurora Public Schools, I’ve seen the...Read More
National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCA) Multan has dismantled a global cybercrime network operating from Pakistan, arresting 14 members of a 21-member syndicate in coordinated raids across Multan and Lahore, according to an FIR. The NCCA Multan said the operation was carried out in collaboration with sensitive security agencies. The arrested members include eight from...Read More
The LCSO made tenth arrest connected to internet chat operation. Kyle James Ross Bulton also known as Kyle James Ross Ball 30 of Washington DC was arrested and charged with two counts of “use of a communication device to facilitate certain offenses involved children” This arrest concludes the undercover internet chat operation that took place...Read More
Dave Luber, the head of the National Security Agency’s Cybersecurity Directorate, will retire at the end of the month in another leadership shakeup at an agency reeling from the recent firing of its chief and mandated cuts to its workforce. Dave Luber, who was named the NSA’s director of cybersecurity last year, will retire on May...Read More
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention against Cybercrime on December 24, despite widespread concerns that the treaty will facilitate human rights violations. The convention, the first global treaty of its kind, extends far beyond addressing cybercrime – malicious attacks on computer networks, systems, and data. It obligates states to establish broad electronic surveillance powers to investigate...Read More
DETROIT — A Michigan man who was captured last fall after the roll out of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) Operation Predator smartphone app was sentenced Monday to 97 months in prison. Mark Robert Austin, 49, was arrested Sept. 13, 2013, without incident by HSI and FBI special agents along...Read More
