Serial child molester granted parole After being granted parole, 64-year-old David Allen Funston, who sexually assaulted young boys and girls in the 1990s is set to be released under the Elderly Parole program. The former prosecutor who tried him is now fighting against his freedom.  CHINO, Calif. – A convicted serial child predator who was...Read More

When we open an email, shop online, or connect with friends on social media, we rarely think about international treaties. Yet behind the scenes, these legal agreements can determine whether law enforcement authorities are able to cooperate across borders to stop cybercriminals.  This month, governments from around the world will gather in Hanoi, Viet Nam...Read More

A powerful, possible US government iPhone hacking toolkit has now ended up in the hands of Russian spies and criminal hackers. It’s infected tens of thousands of phones at minimum, and it’s still likely being used against new victims. Security researchers at Google on Tuesday released a report describing what they’re calling Coruna, a highly...Read More

(TNS) — A former NASA cybersecurity manager appointed to lead Lancaster County government’s information technology department in September is no longer a county employee. Lancaster County’s chief administrator last week notified county department leaders of the change by email, saying that Rose Mustain’s tenure had ended and the county’s chief information security officer, Russ Hauser,...Read More

AI is powering a “fifth wave” in the evolution of cybercrime, offering inexpensive, ready-made malicious tools enabling sophisticated attacks, according to Group-IB. In its latest report, published on January 20, the Singapore-based cybersecurity firm divided the history of cybercrime in four phases, from the opportunistic malware and viruses of the 1990s and early 2000s to...Read More

That means the defender’s job is to change the battlefield in real time. If you’re a cloud-based infrastructure and your cloud instance thinks it’s compromised, it should turn itself off. If someone’s trying to abuse an account privilege, like in a service account, and it’s starting to do something anomalous, don’t let it do it....Read More

David Allen Funston, 64, was convicted of kidnapping and child molestation in 1999. His punishment was originally three life sentences in prison, but through California’s Elder Parole program, he was found to be suitable for release at a hearing in September. Transcripts from that hearing show that, as recently as 2021, Funston was masturbating to...Read More

Authorities Crack Down on 45000 Malicious IPs In a massive international crackdown on cybercrime, law enforcement agencies from 72 countries have successfully dismantled over 45,000 malicious IP addresses and servers. Coordinated by INTERPOL, “Operation Synergia III” targeted the critical infrastructure behind devastating ransomware, malware, and phishing campaigns worldwide. Running from July 18, 2025, to January...Read More

What is Moltbook, and Why Did it Attract Our Attention? Moltbook, the weirdly futuristic social network, has quickly gone viral as a forum where AI agents post and chat. But what we discovered tells a different story – and provides a fascinating look into what happens when applications are vibe-coded into existence without proper security...Read More

Ransomware attacks account for a relatively small proportion of cyber attacks, the vast majority of which are phishing attacks, however, ransomware disproportionately targets larger businesses and public institutions and is seen as a rising threat, particularly in relation to critical infrastructure.  Both the National Crime Agency and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have identified...Read More