Trustees at Kaskaskia College have approved two key contract renewals supporting student services and cybersecurity. The board renewed its agreement for the AwardSpring Scholarship Management Platform for three years at a cost not to exceed just over $30,000. The platform helps streamline scholarship applications and awards for students. In addition, trustees...Read More
The North Ferry’s Mashomack. (Credit: Charity Robey) It’s not just second homeowners and deep-pocketed developers who are transforming the North Fork. Hackers have wormed their way in for the second time in four months. Last week, North Ferry Company’s payment system froze under a ransomware attack, leaving customers unable to pay online while the FBI...Read More
A man sentenced to spend 355 years in prison for sexually abusing young boys in Sacramento County will stay put, for at least another four to six months.The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s (CDCR) Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) voted Wednesday to refer the grant of parole for Gregory Vogelsang, 57, to a rescission...Read More
Introduction When ransomware struck Change Healthcare in February 2024, the attack paralyzed prescription processing across the United States, forcing pharmacies to turn patients away and hospitals to revert to paper records. The breach affected 190 million Americans and cost UnitedHealth Group over $2.4 billion, making it the largest healthcare data breach in U.S. history. The...Read More
A ransomware group known as LeakNet has been quietly building a more dangerous attack strategy. Until recently, the group averaged about three victims per month — but new evidence shows it is scaling up fast, adding new tools that most security defenses are not built to catch. LeakNet has introduced two notable additions: a social...Read More
An active campaign by the Interlock ransomware group is exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-20131) in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. Cisco disclosed the flaw on March 4, 2026; it allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary Java code as root. Amazon threat intelligence researchers discovered Interlock exploiting this vulnerability 36 days before...Read More
NEW YORK, March 17, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — As enterprises abandon on-premise servers and modernize in the cloud, a massive security gap has opened in protecting databases, which are the ‘brains’ of the modern economy. Today, Eon, an intelligent data and AI infrastructure platform, closes that gap with the introduction of the first ransomware protection...Read More
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Livingston police’s undercover operation led to multiple arrests of adults, including a Beaumont man, for allegedly seeking to exploit minors online. LIVINGSTON, Texas — The Livingston Police Department says an undercover investigation launched in late July has led to multiple arrests of adults accused of attempting to engage in sexual activity with minors online, including...Read More
LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — A violent online group known as 764 is posing a significant threat to teenagers worldwide by recruiting, grooming, and extorting minors, particularly girls aged 10 to 17 who are struggling with mental health issues. The group coerces minors into performing sexual acts and self-harm on camera, and in some cases, encourages...Read More
