Share Tweet Share Email X Corp has been fined $650,000 after failing to fully comply with an eSafety transparency notice seeking information about how it was addressing child sexual exploitation and abuse material on its platform. The Federal Court penalty follows a three-year legal process involving the social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, and...Read More
Photo for Headline Surfer / Mugshot of Alan Chambers provided by the Orange County Sheriff’s Office. By HENRY FREDERICK / Headline Surfer ORLANDO, Fla. — Orange County Sheriff’s detectives stopped a predator Tuesday before he had the chance to harm a child. Alan Chambers was arrested after he attempted to meet someone he thought was a...Read More
WINTER PARK, Fla. (CBS12) — Alan Chambers, the former president of an infamous Florida-based anti-LGBTQ conversion therapy organization, was arrested in an undercover child predator sting. Detectives said 54-year-old Chambers of Winter Park was taken into custody Tuesday following an undercover operation in which he allegedly communicated online with an undercover detective posing as a...Read More
LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) – Fayette County Public Schools’ Family and Community Engagement team is set to hold a community meeting to address student and school safety. The meeting, entitled “Commodore Community Conversation: Building Trust & Belonging Together,” will be held at Tates Creek Middle School on Thursday, May 21, at 6 p.m. The event is...Read More
An international law enforcement operation led by France and the Netherlands dismantled First VPN, a cybercriminal anonymization service used by ransomware actors, fraudsters, and data thieves across every major cybercrime investigation Europol has supported in recent years. Bitdefender supported the investigation through Europol, helping generate intelligence that exposed hundreds of individuals linked to cybercrime. This...Read More
An international law enforcement operation led by France and the Netherlands dismantled First VPN, a cybercriminal anonymization service used by ransomware actors, fraudsters, and data thieves across every major cybercrime investigation Europol has supported in recent years. Bitdefender supported the investigation through Europol, helping generate intelligence that exposed hundreds of individuals linked to cybercrime. This...Read More
A cyberattack caused chaos for students at thousands of schools across the country, including many school districts, colleges and universities in Iowa.The attack Thursday targeted a system that schools and universities use to manage grades, assignments and lecture videos. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Instructure, the company behind the...Read More
The federal cybersecurity agency has created a new pathway for people outside of the U.S. government to report vulnerabilities to its catalog of bugs that have been exploited. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced the creation of a nomination form on Thursday that they said enables “researchers, vendors, and industry partners” to report...Read More
What Is Memory-Based Attack Prevention? Memory-based attack prevention is a cybersecurity approach that stops exploits before execution by randomizing runtime memory, preventing attackers from reliably executing malicious code, even when the exploit is previously unknown. Unlike traditional security tools that rely on signatures or behavioral detection, memory-based attack prevention disrupts attacks at the point of execution, eliminating the need...Read More
