Key findings: Meta is using Instagram influencer moms to soften its image on child safety amid mounting criticism and legal pressure over its impact on minors, a TTP investigation found. Meta invites the moms to glossy events promoting its “Teen Account” safeguards, and the influencers then repeat the company’s talking points to their thousands of...Read More
Three men were arrested after multiple Bay Area law enforcement agencies targeted child predators in a sting operation in Newark this week, police said Friday. The Newark Police Department said in a press release that it conducted the operation on Tuesday to identify people seeking to exploit minors online. The suspects were arrested after communicating...Read More
The threat landscape is undergoing rapid and unprecedented change, as reflected in the “Verizon 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report.” For the first time in the report’s 19-year history, vulnerability exploitation was the leading initial access vector, displacing credential abuse from the top spot. It was also the first year that researchers documented an AI-executed...Read More
Fraud, ransomware, and AI-driven attacks have become part of increasingly coordinated and scalable criminal ecosystems, targeting enterprises, governments, and financial institutions. Latin America’s rise as the world’s most targeted ransomware region, combined with a 228% surge in digital fraud, reflects how attackers are rapidly adapting to digital consumer behavior and exploiting fragmented security architectures. In...Read More
An international law enforcement operation coordinated by Europol has dismantled First VPN, also known as 1VPNS, a VPN service widely used by cybercriminals to hide malicious activity and shield operations from investigators. Authorities between May 19 and 20 arrested a suspected administrator in Ukraine, seized 33 servers supporting the service, and shut down primary domains...Read More
Update Canvas’ developer Instructure and OU IT’s alert page on May 8 confirmed access to Canvas systems have been restored. OU and Norman Public Schools are part of a worldwide Canvas data breach by a hacker group. On Thursday afternoon, OU students attempting to access Canvas, the university’s learning management system, were met with a...Read More
A data breach four months ago has Warwick-based Beacon Mutual Insurance notifying people whose personal information was compromised in the incident. A message on the company website states more than 131,000 people in Rhode Island are impacted. NBC 10 News has learned the number includes thousands of state workers. Files that were hacked included Social...Read More
New research shows that volunteer-based cybersecurity programs can have a return on investment of up to millions of dollars for state governments. Save Money, Build Talent, and Defend Communities is a new guidebook from the Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC) at UC Berkeley, and it delves into cybersecurity programming cost and return on investment, maps...Read More
Save You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. AAA Elon Musk’s social network X has admitted breaking Australian law by failing to disclose the steps it was taking to combat child sexual exploitation material on its platform, ending a near three-year legal fight by...Read More
KOOTENAI COUNTY — A man convicted in Kootenai County’s largest child pornography case has been denied parole, according to his daughter Rebecca Brady. Brady campaigned for the continued imprisonment of her father, Edmund Bergeman. Bergeman served 20 years in an Arizona prison and had a parole hearing this month. The Twin Lakes man pleaded guilty...Read More
