Cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest confirmed on May 19, 2026, that organizations running SonicWall Gen6 SSL-VPN appliances that applied the firmware patch for CVE-2024-12802 may still be fully exposed to MFA bypass — because the patch requires six additional manual configuration steps that standard patch-management workflows are not designed to track or verify. Researchers Alexander Capraro and...Read More
You can read the original blog here. TikTok and YouTube have come under fresh scrutiny from the UK regulator Ofcom after failing to explain how their recommendation systems would stop harmful content from reaching children, even as Snap, Meta, and Roblox agreed to introduce new anti-grooming measures. In a report released on Thursday, Ofcom said...Read More
Daniel Hackel, 23, was sentenced to between two and a half and seven years in state prison for trying to meet who he thought was a 15-year-old for sex in November. LANCASTER, Pa. — A Lancaster man was sentenced to between two and a half to seven years in state prison after pleading guilty to...Read More
A VPN service used by ransomware operators, fraudsters and data thieves to mask their activity has been taken offline in a coordinated operation led by France and the Netherlands. According to Europol, the law enforcement action ran from May 19 to 20 and resulted in 33 servers being dismantled, three domains being seized and the...Read More
(Photo Credit: JHVEPhoto/Shutterstock) Liberty Mutual class action lawsuit overview: Who: Two policyholders filed a class action lawsuit against Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. Why: Liberty Mutual allegedly failed to safeguard policyholders’ sensitive information, which was exposed in a recent ransomware attack. Where: The Liberty Mutual data breach class action lawsuit was filed in Massachusetts federal court....Read More
Europol and Eurojust announced Thursday the dismantling of First VPN, a criminal anonymization service that appeared in almost every major cybercrime investigation Europol has supported in recent years — and, more critically, handed investigators the complete user database of a service that more than 5,000 criminal accounts believed was beyond law enforcement’s reach. The coordinated...Read More
This story is still receiving live updates, breaking story is below. This story is ongoing and will be updated as more information becomes available. Update 5/11/2026 6:52 p.m.: Instructure announced that it has reached an agreement with ShinyHunters and confirmed the return of all data. It is currently unknown the terms of the agreement or...Read More
This story is still receiving live updates, breaking story is below. This story is ongoing and will be updated as more information becomes available. Update 5/11/2026 6:52 p.m.: Instructure announced that it has reached an agreement with ShinyHunters and confirmed the return of all data. It is currently unknown the terms of the agreement or...Read More
Parents, experts and lawmakers are expressing increased concern over social media addiction among children and teenagers. Today’s youngest generation has never known a world without social media. The long-term implications of that reality are unknown, but experts are concerned about what research is already showing in relation to things like mental health, compulsive behavior and...Read More
Palantir hosted a hack week this spring to try to turn internal consternation over the company’s work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) into clearer oversight tools for products used in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, according to material reviewed by WIRED. The new tools provide organizations, including...Read More
