The Ohio Hi-Point Joint Vocational School District Board of Education met in regular session Wednesday evening, approving several items focused on campus growth, student opportunities, and school safety as the district continues to expand to meet increasing enrollment. Construction continues on the district’s new Public Safety Academy building, with the project expected to be completed...Read More

Cisco Talos has identified a Rust-based remote access trojan it attributes to the Chaos ransomware group, named msaRAT after four of the binding names left in the binary. The tool starts its own instance of Chrome or Edge on the victim machine and controls it through Chrome DevTools Protocol, a debugging interface built into both...Read More

Media coverage emphasizes a rogue AI attack, while ChatGPT says the real concern is a containment failure that exposed growing risks requiring stronger safeguards. By Robert Chartuk·July 23, 2026 Two portrayals emerged from a report that an artificial intelligence bot went rogue and hacked into a tech company: one by the media and the other...Read More

By Staff Reporter | A teachers’ union-backed initiative to end Arizona’s universal school choice program relied on a variety of violent felons to collect signatures in violation of state law.  In what some critics have called a twist of irony, the initiative allegedly failed to conduct background checks on those gathering signatures for a reform...Read More

Cisco Talos has discovered a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAT) we call “msaRAT” attributed to the Chaos ransomware group. The name is derived from the binding names found in the binary: “msaOpen,” “msaClose,” “msaError,” and “msaMessage”. msaRAT is implemented using the Tokio asynchronous runtime, with primary capabilities of browser-leveraged remote code execution and covert...Read More

Quick Read Coca-Cola (KO) disclosed a ransomware attack suspended Fairlife’s U.S. production with no restoration timeline, threatening grocery shelf availability nationwide. Past food and beverage ransomware attacks on Arizona Beverages and UNFI caused weeks of empty shelves, and Fairlife has few protein dairy substitutes. Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named...Read More

Check Point patches actively exploited SmartConsole authentication bypass flaw Pierluigi Paganini July 23, 2026 Check Point addressed a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232, in SmartConsole that is being actively exploited. Check Point has released security updates to fix multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-16232 (CVSS score of 9.3), a critical authentication bypass flaw affecting Security...Read More

Top state election officials are warning the federal government is not doing enough to help states prepare for the possibility of cyberattacks ahead of the midterm elections. President Donald Trump has had an unflinching focus on election integrity issues, which he has pushed Congress to address through legislation that would tighten voter-identification requirements. In the...Read More

Human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja for time to obtain subpoenas compelling the Director-General of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, to testify in his ongoing cybercrime and criminal defamation trial. The request was made...Read More

French lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill that would ban social media for children under the age of 15 in an effort to safeguard youth mental health, eradicate cyberbullying, and prevent extreme screen addiction. Backed by overwhelming support, the bill will also prevent kids from accessing and possessing cell phones in school. For a bill...Read More