VERDIGRIS, Okla. — A new documentary set to release on Friday will revisit the 2023 Verdigris murder-suicide that shocked Oklahoma and led to changes in state law aimed at strengthening child safety protections in certain supervised visitation cases. The documentary, titled Deadbeat, follows two fathers who lost their children in the tragedy who later turned their grief...Read More
At the recent G7 summit in Evian, France, world leaders agreed to work together against North Korea’s growing crypto theft and cybercrime activities. The move comes after a series of major attacks linked to North Korean hackers, including the infamous $1.5 billion Bybit hack. G7 leaders raise concerns that crypto theft is funding North Korea’s...Read More
Twenty-nine men are facing criminal charges in Jacksonville after Sheriff T.K. Waters said they engaged in online conversations with individuals they believed to be young teens seeking sex. The arrests are the result of a five-day sting operation, dubbed Operation Checkmate, led by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, Water said at...Read More
Open this photo in gallery: Aubrey Cottle, a hacker associated with the Anonymous hacker collective, was criminally charged in both Canada and the United States last year in connection with a hack of the Texas GOP’s website on Sept. 11, 2021.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail Canadian hacker Aubrey Cottle has pleaded guilty to three charges...Read More
Dream Security Ltd., a developer of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity software for governments, today announced that it has raised $260 million in funding. Bicycle Capital and Group 11 jointly led the investment. They were joined by several other institutional backers including Bain Capital Ventures. Dream is now valued at $3 billion. Tel Aviv-based Dream is...Read More
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) – Ohio’s law requiring children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media apps must be restored, a divided panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday. The decision comes as a blow to NetChoice, which had won court victories against similar laws in other states, including California...Read More
The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers to help affiliates evade detection in attacks. The gang employs a collection of EDR-killing tools, most notably a utility that researchers dubbed GentleKiller. The tool has at least eight variants and impersonates various legitimate security products, including Kaspersky,...Read More
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (WBTV) – A bill that would give the state more oversight into child welfare cases is one step closer to becoming law after the North Carolina House passed the “Dominique Moody Safety Act” on Wednesday afternoon. The bill was named after Dominque Moody, a 6-year-old Charlotte girl, who died in December 2025 after...Read More
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NEWS Published: June 18, 2026 at 2:57 PM Sheriff T.K. Waters announced Thursday that the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office arrested 29 people in a multi‑agency child predator investigation called ‘Operation Checkmate.’ The advertiser paid a fee to promote this sponsored video and may have influenced or authored the content. The views expressed in this video are those...Read More
