Two teens have been suspended from a local high school due to a case of sexting. It came to light a week ago after a father came to Southgate Anderson High School saying he caught his teenage daughter sending a topless photo of herself to a boy. They met with the school principal and it...Read More
Ransomware’s Real-World Impact Across Industries In February 2026, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) fell victim to a ransomware attack. The incident took the Epic electronic health record system offline across 35 clinics and more than 200 telehealth sites, forcing the cancellation of chemotherapy appointments and the postponement of non-emergency surgeries. Medical staff were...Read More
Mike Prado, Deputy Assistant Director of the DHS Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Cyber Crimes Center, is retiring from federal law enforcement after 24 years of service. Prado announced his retirement, effective April 3, in a LinkedIn post reflecting on a career that spanned a wide range of investigative and leadership roles across HSI. He most...Read More
A man points to the webpage of an online shop that sells machine guns on the dark web in Germany on November 12, 2016. Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images When you think of the dark web, your brain likely conjures a nefarious place on the internet where you can buy a baby or fork...Read More
Senior phone call scam A recent story of a California woman scamming seniors is shining a light on a troubling trend for U.S. seniors. According to NBC-4 Los Angeles (1), Candice Dale Patrick, 47, targeted the personal information of five residents over 70 in a fraud scheme that spanned from September 2021 to April 2024....Read More
Zoe Kent edits a social media video on the TikTok app, Jan. 20, 2025, at her farm in Bucyrus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joshua A. Bickel, File)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — In a pivotal moment that underscored how powerful and immersive social platforms can be for children and...Read More
Investments in AI security products continued at pace in March 2026, as security vendors continue to focus on AI, while AI vendors have made moves to bring additional security expertise in-house through mergers and acquisitions. Major deals included OpenAI’s acquisition of agentic AI security testing company Promptfoo, while DataBricks acquired two start-ups to support its...Read More
Elliptic said Thursday the $285 million Drift Protocol exploit, the largest this year, carries “multiple indicators” of North Korea’s state-sponsored DPRK hacker group involvement. The research firm pointed specifically to onchain behavior, laundering methodologies and network-level signals, all of which align with previous state-linked attacks. Drift Protocol, whose token has dropped over 40% to roughly...Read More
The Good | SentinelOne AI EDR Stops LiteLLM Supply Chain Attack in Real Time This week, SentinelOne demonstrated how autonomous, AI-driven endpoint protection can detect and stop sophisticated supply chain attacks in real time, without human intervention. On the same day the attack was launched, Singularity Platform identified and blocked a trojanized version of LiteLLM,...Read More
A recording of Meta Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s deposition is played for the jurors on March 4 in Santa Fe, N.M. Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican/AP hide caption toggle caption Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican/AP SANTA FE, N.M. — A New Mexico jury determined Tuesday that Meta knowingly harmed children’s mental health and concealed...Read More
