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
Kempton Park SAPS Social Crime Prevention, together with POWA and the Time to Care Foundation, visited Rethabile Community Crèche in Max Squatter Camp on June 4 as part of Child Protection Week and Gender-Based Violence and Femicide (GBVF) awareness initiatives. The visit aimed to educate children about different forms of child abuse, their rights and...Read More
The FBI has repeated calls urging members of the public not to fall for cryptocurrency investment schemes, after claiming that scammers are using couriers to bypass bank checks. Financial institutions are increasingly capable of spotting and blocking suspicious fund transfers made by victims to crypto-investment scammers, noted a Public Service Announcement (PSA) on July 15....Read More
Digital healthcare company iRhythm Holdings has disclosed a data breach after hackers stole patients’ personal and health information stored on third-party-hosted business applications. The company says its cardiac monitoring service has been used to analyze more than 2 billion hours of curated heartbeat data from over 12 million patients. In a filing with the U.S....Read More
Telecom Egypt opens cybersecurity innovation lab Telecom Egypt launched a cybersecurity innovation lab at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) Smart Village campus. The facility is part of the state-owned operator’s WE Innovate Star programme, which aims to support tech entrepreneurship, digital transformation, and practical training in cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. ...Read More
Parrant cited Australia as an example of escalating post-incident consequences, pointing to increased regulatory scrutiny, greater class action exposure, and costs associated with remediation, customer notification, and business disruption. “As the threat landscape continues to intensify, the impact is being felt not only in the frequency, severity, and velocity of cyber events, but also in...Read More
The UK’s decision to ban social media use for teens under 16 marks a moment where government regulation is catching up to consumer expectations. Forrester’s April 2026 Consumer Pulse Survey, fielded two months before this decision, indicates that in the UK, 67% of consumers supported banning social media use for teens under 16, and 60%...Read More
Parrant cited Australia as an example of escalating post-incident consequences, pointing to increased regulatory scrutiny, greater class action exposure, and costs associated with remediation, customer notification, and business disruption. “As the threat landscape continues to intensify, the impact is being felt not only in the frequency, severity, and velocity of cyber events, but also in...Read More
OCALA, Fla. (CBS12) — Fifty-eight suspected child predators were arrested after a five-day undercover operation in Marion County in which investigators posed as children as young as 7 online, Florida authorities said. The suspects allegedly engaged in sexually explicit conversations and arranged meetings despite being told they were communicating with minors, law enforcement officials announced...Read More
The conference aims to enhance international cooperation, highlighting the newly adopted United Nations Convention against Cybercrime and discussing its implications for national legislative frameworks, and reviewing complementarities and coherences between them and regional conventions, in order to ensure the establishment of a unified international legal framework to govern access to electronic evidence and facilitate its...Read More
