Cybersecurity firm Resecurity helped bring down a criminal operation that sold hackers a way to make malware look like legitimate software, with investigators linking it to multiple criminal operations. Resecurity collaborated with Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit to investigate Fox Tempest, a for-hire service that issued fake digital certificates to cybercriminals, letting them cloak malicious files as...Read More
The UK is building a national cyber defence shield powered by AI, the first to be publicly announced in the world. That’s according to a speech from GCHQ head Anne Keast-Butler, who said AI was an “unstoppable force with great opportunity” that comes with risks. The system she described remained a plan that the security...Read More
Charter Communications, one of the largest telecommunications and broadband providers in the United States, confirmed a cybersecurity incident after the ShinyHunters extortion group claimed it stole tens of millions of customer records from the company’s systems. The company said it is investigating the incident and coordinating with authorities following claims by the threat group that...Read More
Katie Davis (File photograph by Lara Grauer) A Bermudian researcher and professor at the University of Washington moderated a webinar aimed at assisting adults in managing teens’ use of smartphones and social media. Katie Davis, who works within the institute’s Information School and is co-director of its UW Centre for Digital Youth, shared ongoing research...Read More
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Qumulo, the Accelerated Data company, today announced Qumulo NeuralProtect™, a powerful ransomware-resilience solution built to protect data at the storage layer, for detecting and stopping threats before data is encrypted, corrupted, or lost. “Ransomware doesn’t target your backups first; it targets your live data. NeuralProtect is the first solution built to stop attacks at...Read More
Teachers and students at Long Beach Unified, Cal State Long Beach and Long Beach City College were locked out of the computer system used for grades, assignments and messages on Thursday afternoon after an apparent cybersecurity breach targeting school districts and higher education across the country. Long Beach Unified said it learned on Tuesday that...Read More
A24 has unveiled the first trailer for Primetime, its forthcoming drama starring Robert Pattinson, which chronicles the origins of Chris Hansen‘s To Catch a Predator. In 2024, we were first to report on Primetime, a film from Ren Faire‘s Lance Oppenheim, which at the time hadn’t confirmed Hansen as the subject of the story, issuing a logline about “a...Read More
A24 has unveiled the first trailer for Primetime, its forthcoming drama starring Robert Pattinson, which chronicles the origins of Chris Hansen‘s To Catch a Predator. In 2024, we were first to report on Primetime, a film from Ren Faire‘s Lance Oppenheim, which at the time hadn’t confirmed Hansen as the subject of the story, issuing a logline about “a...Read More
Photo by Jaddy Liu on Unsplash As more older Americans manage banking, healthcare, and daily communication online, exposure to cybercrime continues to rise. Today, on National Senior Fraud Awareness Day, new data shows a widening gap in how states are protecting (or failing to protect) their senior populations. A new study by researchers at Protect...Read More
TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) – A man from Jamaica has pleaded guilty to running a romance and lottery scam that cost an elderly Arizona woman more than $469,000. Sherwayne Benjamin Bellinfantie, also known as “Ice Man,” pleaded guilty to Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud on May 20. The 40-year-old was indicted in March 2022...Read More
