Gong and other scholars have been issuing warnings about the security vulnerabilities of AI agents for a while. They publish papers and blog posts detailing exploits such as indirect prompt injection, which involves hijacking agents using commands hidden in websites, emails, or other seemingly anodyne data sources. Compared with these techniques, the Meta hack was...Read More
The Department of the Air Force has appointed Ashley Devoto as CIO Devoto will oversee enterprise IT, data and AI, and cybersecurity portfolios The 2026 Air and Space Summit will explore AI and machine learning, commercial space relay and more The Department of the Air Force has appointed Ashley Devoto, a technology and cybersecurity leader,...Read More
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A portion of a street in Miami-Dade County’s rural Redland area was designated “Jimmy Ryce Avenue” a little more than three decades after the young boy’s abduction and murder. Leer en español Jimmy, 9, was kidnapped at gunpoint when he got off of his bus, just a block from his home,...Read More
HILLSBORO, Ore. (KATU) — Law enforcement officers in the Washington County area arrested five people during an undercover child predator sting operation. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office and Hillsboro Police Department worked together to conduct the sting, saying investigators used several apps and social sites to pose as underage boys and girls. “During the mission,...Read More
If they don’t get you online, they’ll try in person. A data-theft and extortion gang has targeted “dozens” of banks, law firms, and other professional services companies in the US from January through May, using fake help desk calls and other social-engineering techniques to gain access to corporate IT environments, according to Google’s Mandiant incident...Read More
Hackers are already preparing for the midterm elections this fall, with heightened cyber threats building throughout the political spectrum, according to a new report. Check Point, a cybersecurity firm, found in the June 1 report that the midterm cycle “is expected to drive elevated cyber threat activity across the broader election ecosystem, including political organizations,...Read More
Northeast Iowa Community College (NICC) is expanding career pathway opportunities for high school students with the launch of the Computing and Cybersecurity Academy. The new program will be in the NICC Dubuque Center with a schedule designed to fit the needs of high school juniors and seniors starting in August. Students participating in the academy can earn up to 11 college credits at...Read More
Dozens of emails land in my inbox every day. But this one was different. It was from a child in residential care, and they were desperate. “What I am currently going through is not okay,” they wrote. “If I die while in my situation, I want residential care to be called out for what it...Read More
It was 5:15 on a Sunday afternoon. Families were at the beach, and the sun was still high. Then a gunshot cracked on Coronado Drive, and everything changed. A 17-year-old boy is now recovering at Bayfront Hospital after being shot multiple times. The alleged shooter, a 16-year-old from Haines City, was arrested Monday night in...Read More
Jason Bernard was often thinking of others. The 14-year-old boy convinced his mother to make extra food for families in the Peabody public housing community where they lived. He brought home stray cats. But when Jason asked for help — from teachers and the principal’s office — to protect him from bullying at the middle...Read More
