[ad_1] KolkataJul 4, 2025 03:10 IST First published on: Jul 3, 2025 at 17:04 IST Share Expressing concerns over the impact of increasing provocative content on social media and the rise in cybercrime on the country’s social fabric, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has urged the Centre to bring “stringent” laws and make policy...Read More

[ad_1] 950 A Texas man was arrested July 1 after Louisiana State Police discovered suspected narcotics and unrestrained children during a traffic stop on Interstate 20 in Webster Parish. A state trooper stopped a silver Chevrolet Malibu traveling eastbound near milepost 48 for an improper lane use violation. The driver, identified as Khalil Bell, 31,...Read More

[ad_1] Tensions over school safety and discipline dominated Thursday night’s Durham school board meeting. Even as board members voted to rehire School Resource Officers for the upcoming year, they also debated how to handle physical restraint and isolation and how to roll out restorative justice techniques across the district.  Rebecca Ferguson, the mother of a...Read More

[ad_1] FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. – Sixteen people have been arrested and charged as part of an undercover online predator sting conducted by the Fairfax County Police Department. What we know Dubbed operation “Caught in the Web,” the effort was led by the department’s Child Exploitation Unit. Police say all 16 suspects were taken into custody...Read More

[ad_1] A team representing BU’s Metropolitan College emerged victorious at the annual Cyber Games Competition, put on by the National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cybersecurity. It marked the second straight year BU MET’s team placed in the regional event. Held Sunday, March 15, 2025, the NCAE Cyber Games are a US Department of Defense-sponsored...Read More

[ad_1] The US Justice Department has launched a probe into a former ransomware negotiator, accused of striking deals with hackers to take a cut of the crypto used to pay the extortionists. In a statement to Cointelegraph, DigitalMint President Marc Grens confirmed that one of the firm’s former employees is the target of an ongoing...Read More

[ad_1] West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. File | Photo Credit: ANI West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has written to Union Home Minister Amit Shah expressing “deep concern” over the increase of provocative content on social media platforms and the alarming rise in cybercrime cases across the country. She has asked the Union government...Read More

[ad_1] Fairfax County police detectives recently concluded a months-long operation targeting online predators, leading to the arrests of 16 suspects allegedly seeking criminal encounters with minors. During the operation, detectives focused on identifying offenders who used online platforms “to initiate inappropriate conversations with individuals they believed to be underage,” the police department said in a...Read More

[ad_1] Security researchers have uncovered a severe vulnerability in the Python-based data exfiltration utility used by the Cl0p ransomware group, a toolset widely deployed during the high-profile 2023–2024 MOVEit campaigns. The flaw, classified as an improper input validation (CWE-20) issue, allows for remote command execution (RCE) and could be exploited by Cl0p’s rivals or other...Read More

[ad_1] The CBI is learnt to have told a Parliamentary panel that it does not have consent to investigate cases in several states, which makes it challenging for the agency to probe cyber crime cases. The CBI officials were among those called to a meet Thursday of the Standing Committee on Home Affairs, headed by...Read More