Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas Senate on Sunday gave final approval to a priority school safety bill that gives the state more power to compel school districts to create active-shooter plans, requires mental health training for...Read More
A “significant amount of personal data” belonging to legal aid applicants dating back to 2010 in the UK was stolen by cybercriminals, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) confirmed today. The announcement follows the initial news from May 6 of an attack on the UK’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an MoJ-sponsored organization that allows legal aid...Read More
(TNND) — The Federal Bureau of Investigation is raising alarms about an online network of violent predators known as “764,” which targets teenagers through popular online platforms. The group befriends teens and coerces them into escalating sexual and violent behavior, including creating pornography, harming family pets, self-harm, or even suicide. According to ABC News, the...Read More
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KETTERING, Ohio (WKRC) – A major hospital network in the Miami Valley area is experiencing a system-wide technology outage due to a cybersecurity attack. Kettering Health said that the outage has limited their ability to access certain patient care systems across their organization. Both inpatient and outpatient elective procedures at Kettering Health facilities were canceled...Read More
A February call from a European IT services provider that experienced a ransomware attack led researchers at WithSecure to what security pros are calling a “textbook identity attack.”Threat actors lured victims to a malicious look-alike KeePass download site advertised on Bing while the attackers waited for victims who believed it was the legitimate open-source password...Read More
사진 확대 (Yonhap) Following the South Korean government’s announcement that a large-scale hacking attack on SK telecom Co. had been ongoing for three years, concerns are rising that these cyberattacks go beyond mere data theft for profit and could signal a form of cyber warfare orchestrated by specific nations or groups. Evidence has surfaced that...Read More
A Massachusetts man will plead guilty to charges related to the hack of PowerSchool, the education software vendor that says it supports more than 60 million students, and that led to ransom demands at school boards and districts across the United States. In court documents filed Tuesday, prosecutors spelled out charges against 19-year-old Assumption University...Read More
Ariel Winter now works with an organization called SOSA (Safe From Online Sex Abuse), which fights online child sex trafficking She says her reasons behind joining the org are personal, and that she’s been that kid who was preyed upon online before During the undercover stings, she dresses up as an underage girl and chats...Read More
ABILENE, Texas (KTAB/KRBC) – A report from Comparitech claims that a Russian ransomware group has taken responsibility for the cyberattack targeting the City of Abilene. The city has acknowledged this new information but hasn’t confirmed or denied its validity. Cyber incident disrupts City of Abilene’s network systems, including phones Back in April, city officials announced...Read More
