Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: PCWorld reports that Microsoft faces multiple critical security breaches, including an actively exploited Exchange Server spoofing vulnerability and a BitLocker bypass exploit called YellowKey. The vulnerabilities affect core Microsoft products like Defender, Edge, and Authenticator apps, with attackers gaining unauthorized system access and bypassing security protections. While...Read More
In a recent Cybersecurity Insiders interview, Tufin’s Erez Tadmor, Global Field CTO, and Sagi Bar-Zvi, VP of Sales Engineering and Customer Success, discussed why network security has become harder to prove even as organizations add more controls. Their central point is simple: most enterprises have policies, tools, and segmentation plans, but far fewer can show...Read More
Online safety organizations have filed a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking the agency to formally assess Roblox’s alleged risks to children. The Request for Investigation, submitted by child safety nonprofit Fairplay and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), argues that Roblox’s design features and advertising violate portions of the FTC Act...Read More
By: Yolanda (Linda) Reid Chassiakos, MD, FAAP Sexting is the sending or receiving of sexually explicit images, videos or text messages using a smartphone, computer, tablet, video game or digital camera. It’s not something any parent wants to think about their child doing, and it may be uncomfortable to talk about. But the fact...Read More
European law enforcement agencies have dismantled a VPN service long favored by cybercriminals to conceal ransomware attacks, fraud schemes and other illicit activities. The international operation, led by France and the Netherlands and carried out May 19-20, targeted a service known as First VPN, which had been marketed for years on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums as...Read More
The harrowing death of Yves Sakila, a 35-year-old Congolese immigrant, following a brutal physical restraint by private security personnel in the heart of Dublin, has triggered a massive wave of national outrage and urgent demands for systemic accountability. The fatal incident, which occurred outside a prominent department store on Henry Street, was captured on visceral...Read More
AI is changing the economics of deception. It is now cheaper, faster, and easier to manufacture credibility — not just stolen credentials, but entire identities that look real enough to pass onboarding systems, financial controls, vendor reviews, remote hiring processes, and other trust-based workflows. That is what makes synthetic identity fraud so dangerous. It is...Read More
Microsoft on Tuesday said it disrupted a malware-signing-as-a-service (MSaaS) operation that weaponized the company’s Artifact Signing system to deliver malicious code and conduct ransomware and other attacks, compromising thousands of machines and networks across the world. The tech giant attributed the activity to a threat actor it calls Fox Tempest, which it said offered the...Read More
Authorities from seven countries took down ‘First VPN,’ seizing 33 servers The VPN was heavily marketed as a safe haven for ransomware operators The takedown led to thousands of cybercriminals being exposed A coalition of European law enforcement agencies has successfully taken down a massive virtual private network (VPN) that allegedly functioned as a digital...Read More
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – Orange County Public Schools has announced a recent “cybersecurity incident” involving Instructure, the company that provides the district’s Canvas learning management system. In a release, district officials said that Instructure had confirmed on May 2 that an “unauthorized third party gained access to certain user data within its systems.” “According to...Read More
