A Donna man is out on bond after police said he hacked a dead person’s social media accounts to harass relatives of the deceased over a six-year period. Hidalgo County jail records show Jose Luis Lara Jr. was booked on Wednesday on charges of computer security breach, online impersonation, harassment, and unlawful disclosure of intimate...Read More
Key Takeaways: The 2024 CrowdStrike outage (July 19, 2024) that crashed ~8.5 million Windows machines worldwide demonstrates real-world catastrophic risk: a single defective update from one trusted vendor caused global disruption without any attacker or malicious AI. Popular AI doomsday scenarios (worldwide shutdown, grid takeover, rogue nuclear launch) are overstated; they confuse computational capability with real-world authority...Read More
ATLANTA — Fairlife, a dairy company owned by Atlanta-based Coca-Cola, was the target of a ransomware event on Thursday, the company announced. According to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, The Coca-Cola Company identified unauthorized access to some of fairlife’s systems, including production-related systems. [DOWNLOAD: Free WSB-TV News app for alerts as...Read More
An academic at the Australian National University has accused it of a “hysterical” response to students using AI to cheat, as tertiary institutions rush to shore up the credibility of assessments. But a colleague warned Australia is in danger of “shipping our national intellectual capability” to companies in California and China if educational rigour is...Read More
As enterprises rush to adopt AI agents, cybersecurity companies face a new challenge: making sure those agents have reliable information before allowing them to make security decisions. Israeli startup Beacon Security is targeting that problem with a platform designed to give security teams and AI agents a unified view of an organization’s data, threats and...Read More
Under the e-Zero FIR mechanism, cyber financial fraud complaints involving a financial loss of more than Rs 1 lakh reported through the 1930 Helpline are automatically integrated with the Crime and Criminal Tracking Network & Systems (CCTNS) for registration of an e-Zero FIR. Integration of the 1930 Helpline with CCTNS eliminates duplicate data entry, enables...Read More
TUCSON, Ariz. – In what could be the longest fugitive pursuit in Arizona history has come to a close after a child sex predator was finally sentenced after more than 32 years on the run, and his capture happened near a Ukrainian war zone. The backstory: Back in 1992, Daniel Brewster was convicted in Tucson...Read More
“The Chinese government wanted me to lose the 2020 election because I imposed tariffs on them,” claims the US President. Павялічыць Photo: Alex Brandon-Pool/Getty Images China gained unauthorized access to the data of 220 million voters, President Donald Trump stated in an address to the nation. “Data from tens of millions of voters in 18...Read More
Incident & Breach Response , Security Operations CISA Lauded for Fast Response, Transparency and Detailing Security Recommendations Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • July 17, 2026 Lock down public code repositories, monitor those repos for secrets, and if they get exposed, have a well-tested incident response playbook at the ready. See Also: Converged SOC...Read More
A new name topped the ransomware leaderboard in June 2026. A group calling itself The Gentlemen claimed 94 victims over the month, enough to knock Qilin out of first place after a five-month run at the top. The reshuffle is more than a curiosity for threat-intel analysts. It lands inside a month that saw total...Read More
