In recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day INDIANPOLIS – As Indiana recognizes World Elder Abuse Awareness Day, Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales is reminding Hoosiers that protecting seniors from financial exploitation requires awareness and education. As financial exploitation reaches record highs, state and provincial securities regulators are reaffirming their commitment to protecting senior...Read More

A notorious ransomware group secretly infiltrated the network of a major company for up to two months by hiding command and control (C&C) traffic in Microsoft Teams, before unleashing their attack, researchers have warned. The investigation report, published by Symantec and Carbon Black on 16 June, warned that attackers deployed DragonForce ransomware on the network...Read More

For months, Big Tech’s Washington lobbyists have chased after the holy grail of pro-AI legislation: preemption. This would be a comprehensive federal law, passed in Congress and signed by the president, applying one set of AI rules across the entire country and overriding the legally messy state-by-state approach to regulation. For months, lobbyists have run...Read More

With an increasing number of countries implementing social media bans for young users, there’s a growing sense that these restrictions are becoming more common and that social platforms could face a reckoning. On Monday, Britain joined those countries, with Prime Minister Keir Starmer announcing legislation to ban British children under 16 from a range of...Read More

cyber-crime More reasons to love social media and AI Brits lost £1.28 billion ($1.7 billion) to payment fraud last year as scams continued to thrive on online platforms and telecoms networks, according to the latest figures from banking trade association UK Finance. The 2025 losses represent a modest four percent rise on the previous year,...Read More

Oracle is dealing with another ugly enterprise security moment. The company warned customers about a critical bug in its PeopleSoft PeopleTools software after hackers allegedly used it to target more than 100 organisations. Google’s Mandiant and Threat Intelligence Group linked the campaign to ShinyHunters, a cybercrime group known for data theft and extortion. Oracle PeopleSoft...Read More

Mark Chen, chief research officer of Open AI Inc., during a news conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday, June 16, 2026. SoftBank and OpenAI will provide cybersecurity services for Japan to secure critical infrastructure, according to SoftBank Group Chief Executive Officer Masayoshi Son | Photo Credit: Akio Kon Japan’s SoftBank Group has launched a cybersecurity...Read More

WALLACE — A Spokane man was arrested Saturday on charges of attempting to solicit a child for sexual activity. He was apprehended after being caught by an online group.  Howard Penney, 55, was charged Monday with three felonies: child sexual abuse, enticing a child through the internet or other communication device and possession of sexually...Read More

DragonForce ransomware used a custom malware named ‘Backdoor.Turn’ to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. The backdoor abuses the Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN) protocol used by Microsoft Teams to distribute messages when a direct connection to the client is unavailable (e.g., clients on a private network). DragonForce is a ransomware operation...Read More

Florida’s attorney general has filed a lawsuit against TikTok on Monday, alleging that the platform is violating the state’s child safety law, which prohibits social media companies from allowing children under the age of 14 to create accounts, News.Az reports, citing Reuters. The lawsuit, filed in state court in St. Lucie County, accuses TikTok of...Read More