Hotel cyber risk is heating up this summer. 66% of hotel IT and security executives expect a rise in attack frequency and 50% an increase in severity during the summer 2025 travel season, according to new research released today by VikingCloud. During summer 2024, 82% of North American hotels were hit with a successful cyberattack,...Read More
A major international operation has led to the arrest of 14 individuals suspected of involvement in a large-scale phishing attack that defrauded UK taxpayers of an estimated £47 million. The arrests, primarily in Romania, were the result of a joint effort between criminal investigators from HMRC (Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs), the UK’s tax authority,...Read More
article Oakland welcomed their new police Floyd Mitchell on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. OAKLAND, Calif. – The Oakland Police Department will continue to stay under federal oversight – now in its 22nd year – as it still has three out of 50 mandated reforms that the court considers out of compliance. One of the key...Read More
U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA says hackers are actively exploiting a critical-rated security flaw in a widely used Citrix product, and has given other federal government departments just one day to patch their systems. Security researchers have dubbed the bug “Citrix Bleed 2” for its similarity to a 2023 security flaw in Citrix NetScaler, a networking...Read More
11 arrested in Stanislaus County online child sex predator sting, California AG says Updated: 4:27 PM PDT Mar 24, 2025 Editorial Standards ⓘ Eleven people have been arrested and accused of trying to contact a minor for sex, following a sting operation in Stanislaus County.Law enforcement personnel posed as children as young as 13 years...Read More
(TNS) — Albemarle County residents and employees’ personal data may have been compromised in the June “cybersecurity incident” that took down the internet in county offices. The county announced Thursday that what it has been describing only as a “cybersecurity incident” since June 12 was in fact a ransomware attack. ‘Cybersecurity incident’ blamed for Albemarle...Read More
Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has arrested four young people, two 19-year-old men, a 17-year-old boy, and a 20-year-old...Read More
For the first time in over two decades, Congress may approve major legislation focused on protecting children online. This comes with increasing state action on children’s safety online, including at least 50 bills enacted about children and social media that tend to be more proscriptive on the rules rather than respecting the rights of minors. ...Read More
Quantum computers will soon be able to break modern-day encryption When that happens, nation-states can abuse the tech to steal sensitive files Organizations need to prepare today, Capgemini says Sooner or later, quantum computers will be able to break through today’s encryption, and when that happens, critical industries such as defense, critical infrastructure, telecommunications, and...Read More
Louis Vuitton has said the data of some UK customers has been stolen, as it became the latest retailer targeted by cyber hackers. The retailer, the leading brand of the French luxury group LVMH, said an unauthorised third party had accessed its UK operation’s systems and obtained information such as names, contact details and purchase...Read More
