Child safety advocates say the massively popular gaming platform Roblox could be bad for kids. Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation have requested the Federal Trade Commission to investigate if the games on Roblox are designed to make kids spend an unhealthy amount of time and money on their screens. Roblox’s core users...Read More
LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Hundreds of suspects were arrested, and 40 children were rescued and identified across Southern California as the result of an investigation into internet crimes against children. Between April 19 and May 3, the Los Angeles Police Department-led component of the Internet Crimes Against Children task force orchestrated the effort known as...Read More
PULASKI COUNTY, Ga (WGXA) — The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office is seeking public assistance to locate a registered sexual predator wanted for violating the Georgia sex offender registry. According to the Pulaski County Sheriff’s office, Jimmy Ray Smallwood is a registered sex offender who is classified by the state of Georgia as a sexual predator....Read More
NATIONWIDE INITIATIVE TO CATCH CHILD PREDATORS IN THE ACT OPERATION. GAME. OVER. 15 ACCUSED CHILD PREDATORS NOW OFF THE STREETS OF ALBUQUERQUE. THE FBI SPEARHEADING THE OPERATION ALONGSIDE THE NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE AND MULTIPLE LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT KOAT LEGAL EXPERT JOHN DA, WEIGHING IN ON THE CHARGES, THE DEFENDANTS ARE LOOKING AT DECADES...Read More
Catch up on Southern California’s top stories for Thursday, May 21. A woman was arrested after refusing to get out of her car following the crash. The operation was conducted with the cooperation of multiple law enforcement agencies. Firefighters made progress controlling the Sandy Fire overnight, but are paying special attention to a former nuclear...Read More
Florida Physician Specialists has notified the Maine Attorney General’s office that a ransomware attack targeting its systems in November impacted the data of more than 275,000 patients. The Jacksonville, FL-based multi-specialty private physician practice first announced the data breach in notification letters sent to affected patients on 24 April and in a data security...Read More
Rapid7 has published its Q1 2026 Threat Landscape Report, which found that vulnerability exploitation overtook social engineering as the leading initial access vector in the incidents it examined. Exploitation accounted for 38% of incident response cases in Rapid7’s managed detection and response data, compared with 24% for social engineering and 14% for compromised accounts. The...Read More
In recent years, the UN General Assembly—especially its First Committee, dedicated to peace and security issues, and the Third Committee addressing social, humanitarian, and cultural issues, including crime prevention and human rights—has seen a surge of technology-related initiatives spearheaded by Russia and China. Nominally aimed at improving online security, their underlying goal is to tilt...Read More
A Canadian man is facing federal charges in Alaska in connection with what investigators describe as a massive global cybercrime operation involving a botnet used to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. Federal prosecutors say 23-year-old Jacob Butler of Ottawa, Canada, has been charged with operating the KimWolf botnet, a DDoS-for-hire service that allegedly infected more than...Read More
An apparent cyberattack shut down an education platform used by universities and K-12 schools across the U.S. Thursday, depriving students and teachers of essential classroom materials – at a time when many are taking or prepping for final exams.Canvas, a popular, cloud-based digital hub for classrooms, has more than 30 million active users globally, with...Read More
