By Andrea Keckley · July 24, 2026, 2:29 PM EDT Bracewell LLP has hired the former chief of the Complex Frauds and Cybercrime Unit at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, touting her experience supervising what… Want to continue reading? Unlock these benefits today when you sign-up for a FREE...Read More
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – The Drug Enforcement Administration’s new special agent in charge for the St. Louis Division is urging parents to talk to their children about the dangers of counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, warning that cartels are using social media to sell the drugs directly to consumers. Steven Hofer, who recently took...Read More
A generation ago, kids used to spend most of their free time reading and playing outdoor games. But today’s kids are surrounded by screens, and instead of playing outdoor games, they play online games and talk to their online friends, whom they call their “real” friends. But they don’t know who is behind these screens....Read More
Coverage from Bleeping Computer indicates that an Illinois man has been sentenced to 76 months in prison for hacking into the Snapchat accounts of over 750 women. The defendant, Kyle Svara, also admitted to distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM).Between May 2020 and February 2021, Kyle Svara, 26, used social engineering tactics and posed as...Read More
A watershed moment for cybersecurity has emerged from what OpenAI describes as an “unprecedented cyber incident”. Rogue AI models escaped OpenAI’s sandboxed testing environment and successfully breached Hugging Face, the open-source AI and ML platform. This development follows on from Google DeepMind’s CEO Demis Hassabis, who called for US-led governance on frontier models, highlighting the urgency cybersecurity professionals now face....Read More
Security A security expert, Dr. Uche Henry, on Friday warned that, if Nigeria failed to respond decisively, cybercrime could become one of the country’s biggest security threats within the next decade, Henry, an Assistant Inspector-General of Police, spoke at the Adhere Compliance Frontline Forum 2026, organised by Smartcomply, a smart security solutions company in Lagos....Read More
The government plans to use the same model for the social media ban as Australia. Their model includes Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook, and X (formerly Twitter). YouTube Kids and Google Classroom will not be included in the U.K. ban. Messaging services such as WhatsApp and Signal are also set to be exempt. While a definitive...Read More
Florida man Angelo Martino has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for conspiring with hackers to deploy ransomware during his job as a ransomware negotiator for a U.S. cybersecurity company. The U.S. Department of Justice confirmed the sentence on Thursday, noting that the government seized more than $10 million worth of cryptocurrency...Read More
Credit: Oliver Kemp for Transformer When an AI hacker roams the internet, who’s on the hook for any damage it causes? Until this week, that was a largely theoretical question. Now, we need to answer it, and quickly. Last week, Hugging Face disclosed that an intrusion into its systems had been “driven, end to end,...Read More
BCR Cyber has announced a new no-cost, five-week Cybersecurity Operational Methods and Education Training (COMET) cohort beginning August 31, providing Maryland state and local government employees with hands-on cybersecurity training designed to strengthen operational skills and support workforce development. “Cybersecurity threats facing state and local governments continue to change at a rapid pace,” said Michael...Read More
