Thursday, March 12, 2026 3:42PM TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) — A convicted child predator from Tulare County has been denied parole for the next three years. 62-year-old Steven Richard Williams is serving a life sentence at Valley State Prison in Chowchilla for crimes against children. The assaults against three male victims under the age of...Read More
Photo: Lam Khanh/VNA. (from left) UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, State President of Viet Nam Luong Cuong, and UNODC Executive Director Ghada Waly at the opening ceremony of the UN Convention against Cybercrime. A collective defence for the digital age In his remarks, Mr. Guterres warned that while technology has brought “extraordinary progress,” it has also created...Read More
SentinelOne reports FortiGate NGFW flaws exploited in early 2026 Three critical bugs (CVE-2025-59718, -59719, -2026-24858) enabled admin access and persistence Fortinet issued patches; firms urged to rotate credentials, enforce strong controls, and monitor for lateral movement At the start of the year, cybercriminals were exploiting three vulnerabilities in FortiGate Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) to establish persistence...Read More
article Amaury Torralva | Lake County Sheriff’s Office ZION, Ill. – A Zion man who is already a registered sexual predator has been charged after investigators say they found hundreds of videos of child pornography in his possession. What we know: Detectives with the Lake County Sheriff’s Office said the investigation began after an internet...Read More
A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms: Harassing, threatening and even swatting executives and their families, all while notifying journalists and regulators about the extent of the intrusion. Some victims reportedly are paying — perhaps as much...Read More
Editor’s Note: Tanya Goudsouzian is a Canadian journalist who has covered Afghanistan and the Middle East for over two decades. She has held senior editorial roles at major international media outlets, including serving as Opinion Editor at Al Jazeera English. Ibrahim Al-Marashi is an Associate Professor at California State University San Marcos and a board...Read More
The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime; Strengthening International Cooperation for Combating Certain Crimes Committed by Means of Information and Communications Technology Systems and for the Sharing of Evidence in Electronic Form of Serious Crimes opened for signature at a ceremony held on 25 and 26 October 2025 in Hanoi. The signing ceremony was organized during...Read More
A whitehat hacker has gone public over a months-long feud with the team behind Injective over its response to a critical bug disclosure. According to the report, the vulnerability in question put $500 million at risk via a faulty validation system. The pseudonymous crypto security researcher, who goes by the moniker al_f4lc0n, has accused Injective...Read More
A school safety aide at Bradley Tech High School faces a single charge of sexual misconduct by school staff or volunteer, prosecutors say she sent “inappropriate texts” to a student.Prosecutors charged Samara Miller Saturday. She was released on a signature bond the same day.The texts included “…comments about buying him things, inviting him over to...Read More
More than 70 countries signed the landmark U.N. Convention against Cybercrime in Hanoi this weekend, a significant step in the yearslong effort to create a global mechanism to counteract digital crime. The U.K. and European Union joined China, Russia, Brazil, Nigeria and dozens of other nations in signing the convention, which lays out new mechanisms...Read More
