President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency would eliminate the agency’s work on election security and chemical infrastructure safety, shrink its nationwide force of security advisers and slash training support for critical infrastructure operators. Those and other changes presented in CISA’s fiscal year 2027 budget request would continue a trend...Read More
As-a-Service Cybercrime Models As-a-Service cybercrime models reduce the barrier to entry for cyber criminals as they no longer need expertise in every domain. Threat actors can increasingly outsource or supplement missing skills through the broader cybercrime-as-a-service ecosystem, and thus these models continue to grow in popularity within the cybercriminal underground. This has led to multiple...Read More
Congress is preparing to vote on a package of bills aimed at protecting children online. The proposals span content moderation requirements for social media platforms, data collection restrictions, and controls over how minors access apps through their phones. Behind all these legislative efforts lies a fundamental constitutional question that remains unresolved: What is the scope...Read More
On March 31, Australia’s online safety watchdog, eSafety, announced it is considering legal action against Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube over systemic failures to block users under 16. Australia’s eSafety Commissioner, Julie Inman Grant, released her first compliance report since the ban took effect on Dec. 10 last year, stating that five million Australian...Read More
Cybercrime remains a booming business. Annual cybercrime losses amounted to almost $20.9 billion last year, reflecting a 26% increase from 2024, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said in its annual report Tuesday. The comprehensive study exposes a worsening digital crime environment that is driving financial losses, with momentum moving in the wrong direction...Read More
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said James Stahler II pleaded guilty to cyberstalking and other crimes, including the use of AI-generated sexually explicit images. COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus man pleaded guilty in federal court on Tuesday to cybercrime charges where he distributed real and AI-generated sexually explicit images and threatened several people. James Strahler II,...Read More
Once that information was taken, the hacker sent an email to numerous members of the Penn community. It had the subject line “We got hacked (Action Required),” and it called the school “a dogshit elitist institution full of woke retards.” It went on to claim that the school is “completely unmeritocratic” and that “we hire...Read More
Lt. Gov. Jay Collins visited Jacksonville to illustrate the state’s commitment to older Floridians at a senior living facility. Operation Senior Shield, an initiative to help seniors stay ahead of scammers, was the topic in front of a room full of young-at-heart residents of the Sunshine State. Collins described it as a “tool to combat senior...Read More
A group of Russian government hackers have hijacked thousands of home and small business routers around the world as part of an ongoing campaign aimed at redirecting victim’s internet traffic to steal their passwords and access tokens, security researchers and government authorities warned on Tuesday. This is the latest tactic by the long-running Russian hacking...Read More
MADISON, Wis. — Changes to social media platforms are expected after a jury found YouTube and Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, negligent for knowingly designing addictive products that harm the mental health of teens. The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by a now 20-year-old woman and her mother. Meta and YouTube were ordered...Read More
