Gov. Ivey addressing the State Board of Education. By Executive Order 713, Governor Ivey convened the Securing Alabama’s Facilities of Education (SAFE) Council to provide recommendations to implement measures which will help make our schools more secure and safe. Governor Ivey recognizes that each school’s security needs are unique, and local districts must be given...Read More
According to independent researcher Kevin Beaumont, three organizations told him that devices inside their networks that had Notepad++ installed experienced “security incidents” that “resulted in hands on keyboard threat actors,” meaning the hackers were able to take direct control using a web-based interface. All three of the organizations, Beaumont said, have interests in East Asia....Read More
IOWA CITY, Iowa (Iowa’s News Now) — The Iowa City Senior Center is hosting a scam awareness event along with the Iowa City Police Department on Friday. The program will be focused on avoiding internet and phone scams on Friday, March 27 at 1 p.m. The event will be in meeting room 302 at the...Read More
Photo: Eric England The average Nashville resident may not know Workwear Outfitters by name, but they’ve almost certainly encountered its clothing. The company bills itself as the “world’s workwear authority,” with global headquarters off Marriott Drive near the Nashville International Airport. Its portfolio includes some of the most recognizable brands in the industry. Red Kap...Read More
They’re known as the “Yahoo Boys” — a term emanating from the late 1990s and early 2000s when schemers in Nigeria would use Yahoo email to try and scam unsuspecting people out of their money via the internet. Those of a certain age will remember versions of the nonsense: A Nigerian prince needs help claiming a fortune...Read More
We’re living through a genuinely groundbreaking moment in technology. Every week brings new breakthroughs in AI agents – capabilities that seemed impossible just months ago are now becoming reality. Organisations are rushing to adopt them, and they’re right to. But there are important security considerations beneath the enthusiasm. According to our research, at Okta,...Read More
57,000 user accounts. 728,000 sensitive file names. 46.5m chat messages. These are some of the assets a cybersecurity firm claimed they were able to access on McKinsey’s internal AI platform last month. It’s the kind of scenario all businesses dread. It’s also one that, in today’s digital age, few companies are immune from. So while...Read More
Augusta University students spent two days in the nation’s cybersecurity workforce during a hands-on experience designed to show them what their futures could look like beyond the classroom. The event was hosted by the School of Computer and Cyber Sciences as a part of the Virtual Institutes for Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Research and Employ (VICEROY) program. The program was established under the John...Read More
The debate on banning cell phones in classrooms and their effectiveness against digital violence Banning cell phones in classrooms is another possible solution to reduce the problem of digital violence against minors and AI-generated content. Some countries have already taken this step: Portugal will ban them from the 2025/26 school year in the early stages of education,...Read More
Johnson said he felt compelled to speak up about “the abuse of authority and mistreatment of a woman” happening in front of him. “Hey, leave her alone,” Johnson said. Norris later testified that those words “encouraged” Borrenpohl to “keep resisting,” so he grabbed Johnson and threatened to arrest him. He marched Johnson out of the...Read More
