As parents get ready to send their children back to school, safety is top of mind. A growing number of students across the state are welcomed to school each day by staff, school resource officers and weapons detectors. Wake County, the state’s largest school district, is not among the districts that use weapons detectors. In...Read More
Dive Brief: Cybersecurity startup Horizon3.ai announced Tuesday that it appointed Holly Grey as its CFO as the company seeks to grow its business, which autonomously tests corporate networks, data, email and other systems in order to find and manage areas vulnerable to cyberattacks and ransomware breaches. The San Francisco, California-based company’s co-founder and CEO Snehal Antani...Read More
UK-based telecommunications company Colt Technology Services is dealing with a cyberattack that has caused a multi-day outage of some of the company’s operations, including hosting and porting services, Colt Online, and Voice API platforms. The British telecommunications and network services provider disclosed that the attack started on August 12 and the disruption continues as its IT staff...Read More
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: A Lansing, Michigan, franchise of ManpowerGroup experienced a data breach beginning in late December 2024, the company confirmed in an email to HR Dive, potentially exposing the personal information of nearly 145,000 customers. The staffing...Read More
Ransomware and infostealer threats continue to evolve faster than most organizations can respond. While traditional defenses, including backup and recovery strategies, remain critical, Picus Security’s Blue Report 2025 demonstrates that today’s most damaging attacks increasingly focus on credential theft, data exfiltration, and lateral movement rather than encryption alone. By quietly exploiting weak credentials and bypassing...Read More
The FBI and security researchers today warned that Russian government spies exploited a seven-year-old bug in end-of-life Cisco networking devices to snoop around in American critical infrastructure networks and collect information on industrial systems. “In the past year, the FBI detected the actors collecting configuration files for thousands of networking devices associated with US entities...Read More
Victoria’s Rapid Child Safety Review has been received well by the early childhood sector and child safety advocates, but the overwhelming response suggests it speaks to the need for unified reforms on a federal level. The review was commissioned after more than 70 charges of child abuse were laid against a former Melbourne childcare worker...Read More
Legacy medical devices often remain in use long after their operating systems, firmware, and security protections have become outdated, creating significant challenges for manufacturers. These devices expose healthcare providers and patients to cybersecurity risks while also drawing heightened regulatory scrutiny. Addressing these risks requires a structured, risk-informed approach to evaluating, prioritizing, and managing legacy devices...Read More
Both cases illustrate LockBit 3.0’s continued use of DLL sideloading through legitimate executables to evade detection and achieve execution within compromised systems. We identified another infection containing two different extensions — one being the same as the previously noted extension, while the other being an “.xlockxlock” extension. Furthermore, we have also externally sourced an MSI...Read More
